“…18,19,21,22,24,27,28,31,32,36,60,[86][87][88] Authors of studies with statistically significant OS advantage for PN acknowledged differences in baseline characteristics (ie selection bias) that may have contributed to the observed findings. 23,25,26,74 In 10 SEER studies comprising the majority of patients in this analysis PN was associated with a statistically significant overall survival benefit compared to RN for clinical stage T1a tumors but not for T1b tumors. 61,64,65,67,68,70,[83][84][85] Therefore, meta-analyses were different for SEER (effect size 1.23, range 1.13 to 1.33) and nonSEER studies (1.09, 0.88 to 1.34, supplementary table 9, fig.…”