B7-H4 as an independent prognostic indicator of cancer patients: a meta-analysis

Zibo Meng; Feiyang Wang; Yushun Zhang; Shoukang Li; Heshui Wu

doi:10.18632/oncotarget.18566

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B7-H4 as an independent prognostic indicator of cancer patients: a meta-analysis

Zibo Meng, Feiyang Wang, Yushun Zhang, Shoukang Li and Heshui Wu _

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Abstract

Zibo Meng1,*, Feiyang Wang1,*, Yushun Zhang1, Shoukang Li1 and Heshui Wu1

1Department of Pancreatic Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China

*These authors contribute equally to this work

Correspondence to:

Heshui Wu, email: [email protected]

Keywords: B7-H4, cancer, prognosis, meta-analysis

Received: May 09, 2017 Accepted: June 11, 2017 Published: June 19, 2017

ABSTRACT

The expression of B7-H4 was observed in a variety of tumors, however the prognostic value in cancer was still controversial. Therefore, we conducted this meta-analysis to explore the potential role of B7-H4 in cancer prognostic prediction. Twenty-seven studies including 3771 patients were brought into the analysis according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The pooled results demonstrated that elevated B7-H4 predicted a poor OS (HR = 1.93, 95% CI 1.71-2.18, P < 0.001) and DFS (HR = 1.84, 95% CI 1.46-2.33, P < 0.001). Subgroup analysis showed that races, tumor types, sample sources, analysis types, sources of HR and sample sizes exhibited non-significant distinctions with OS (P_S = 0.878, P_S = 0.143, P_S = 0.613, P_S = 0.639, P_S = 0.48 and P_S = 0.528, respectively). PubMed, Embase and the Cochrane Library were searched up to April 7, 2017, to recognize the available studies for assessing the association between B7-H4 and cancer patients’ outcome. We extracted the hazard ratio (HR), relative ratio (RR), odds ratio (OR) with their 95% confidence interval (CI) for overall survival (OS) or disease-free survival (DFS) as the effect size (ES) for the analysis. This meta-analysis demonstrates high expression of B7-H4 is a negative correlation with the outcome of cancer patients.

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