“…Shen et al (2002) analyzed oral, pharyngeal, and laryngeal cancer specifically, whereas Ji et al (2008) and Chen et al (2008) studied oropharyngeal cancer as well as oral cancer. Overall, a total of 27 studies consisting of 3966 HNCs cases and 4387 controls were included in our meta-analysis (Yung et al, 1997;Golovleva et al, 1997;McWilliams et al, 2000;Hamel et al, 2000;Summersgill et al, 2000;Tandle et al, 2001;Sourvinos et al, 2001;Nagpal et al, 2002;Shen et al, 2002;Tsai et al, 2002;Tiwawech et al, 2003;Kietthubthew et al, 2003;Katiyar et al, 2003;Scheckenbach et al, 2004;Cortezzi et al, 2004;Hsieh et al, 2005;Sousa et al, 2006;Twu et al, 2006;Hadhri-Guiga et al, 2007;Perrone et al, 2007;Kuroda et al, 2007;Ji et al, 2008;Chen et al, 2007Chen et al, , 2008Lin et al, 2008;Tu et al, 2008;Misra et al, 2009) (Table 2). The genotype distribution of the TP53 Arg72Pro polymorphism is summarized in Table 3.…”