“…Eighteen of these articles were cohort studies (21, 24-27, 32, 33, 36, 40, 41, 47, 51, 55, 57, 59, 61, 62, 69), and 31 were case-control studies (22, 23, 28-31, 34, 35, 37-39, 42-46, 48-50, 52-54, 56-58, 60, 63-68). Sixteen articles were performed in Europe (22, 24, 29, 33, 37, 40, 42, 43, 45, 48-50, 52, 59-61), 15 articles were attributed to North America (21,23,26,28,30,32,35,36,38,41,44,54,56,57,68), 16 articles were Asian (25,27,31,34,46,47,51,53,58,(62)(63)(64)(65)(66)(67)69) and the remaining 2 articles were from Oceania (39,55). Depending on the study endpoints, 6 articles focused on pancreatic cancer (21,28,(41)(42)(43)(44), 23 articles focused on colorectal cancer (22, 24, 27, 29, 34-37, 40, 45, 46, 50, 51, 53-56, 58, 59, 61-64), 12 studies examined colon cancer (23, 24, 26, 27, 37, 51, 55-57, 59, 61, 62), 12 studies were perfo...…”