“…A total of 2585 participants were included with a maximum sample size of 593 and a minimum sample size of 30. Among the 15 articles, the digestive system malignancies assessed in these studies included esophageal carcinoma (2 articles) [39, 44], gastric cancer (6 articles) [22, 33, 38, 40-42], colorectal cancer (2 articles) [20, 37], hepatocellular carcinoma (2 articles) [21, 34], pancreatic cancer (3 articles) [35, 36, 43]. Among the eligible articles, one came from Japan [20], one came from Portugal [36] and the rest of 13 articles were came from China [21-22, 33-35, 37-44].…”