“…Three studies that did not report the risk estimate were also excluded (Potera et al , 1977; Goodman et al , 2001; Schroecksnadel et al , 2003). Finally, 23 articles (Thorand et al , 1998; Wu et al , 1999a; Levi et al , 2001; Shrubsole et al , 2001; Feigelson et al , 2003; Zhang et al , 2003; Zhu et al , 2003; Lajous et al , 2006a; Lajous et al , 2006b; Cho et al , 2007; Kabat et al , 2008; Lin et al , 2008; Xu et al , 2008; Ma et al , 2009a; Ma et al , 2009b; Maruti et al , 2009a; Stevens et al , 2010; Chou et al , 2011; Shrubsole et al , 2011; Zhang et al , 2011; Lurie et al , 2012; Bassett et al , 2013; Yang et al , 2013) were included in this meta-analysis. The detailed steps of our literature search are shown in Supplementary Material.…”