“…The basic information and quality evaluation (NOS) results included in the study are shown in Table 1 . The included studies looked at cancer patients in Asia (n=6) [ 9 , 12 , 13 , 21 , 29 , 30 ] and Caucasians (n=13) [ 14 , 15 , 18 – 20 , 22 – 28 , 31 ]. In addition, in terms of cancer types, leukemia (n=2) [ 12 , 26 ], breast cancer (n=3) [ 9 , 13 , 15 ], colorectal cancer (n=3) [20,27,30)], cervical cancer (n=4) [ 21 – 23 , 28 ], and other cancers (prostate cancer, gastric cancer, renal cell carcinoma, non-small-cell lung cancer, melanoma, myeloma, lymphoma) were included in studies [ 4 , 9 , 14 , 18 , 25 , 29 , 31 ].…”