“…Overall, 541,244 CRC cases were included, involving 1547 patients diagnosed with BM [ 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 ]. The overall average incidence of BM in CRC patients was 2.10% (95%CI 0.98–3.22) ranging from 0.1% up to 11.5% [ 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 ]. Fifty-seven percent of patients were male and 43% were female ( Figure 2 and Table 2 ).…”