“…Also, the majority of involved studies were reported by authors in Asia (China, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea), and the other studies were 1 from Canada, 3 from the USA, and 1 from Brazil. Moreover, 12 types of cancers including 3 ovarian cancers [5,7,9], 2 breast cancers [12,13], 1 osteosarcoma [16], 3 lung cancers [6,9,10], urological cancers (UC) which include 2 gallbladder carcinomas [17], 1 renal cancer [18], and 1 urothelial carcinoma [19], and gastrointestinal (GI) malignancies which include 1 gastric cancer [4], 2 HCCs [20,21], 1 esophageal cancer [22], 1 colorectal cancer [23], 1 pancreatic carcinoma [11], and 1 oral cell carcinoma [24] were evaluated in this meta-analysis. The total subjects registered were divided into high and low DDR groups based on the DDR measurement results.…”