“…By contrast, one article consisted of two independent studies, and studies included in this article were treated as separate studies (MartinezBalibrea et al, 2008). As a result, a total of 2286 CRC patients were enrolled in the 17 studies included in the pool analysis (Park et al, 2001;Stoehlmacher et al, 2004;Le Morvan et al, 2007;Ruzzo et al, 2007;Martinez-Balibrea et al, 2008;Pare et al, 2008;Lai et al, 2009;Boige et al, 2010;Chen et al, 2010;Etienne-Grimaldi et al, 2010;Farina Sarasqueta et al, 2011;Lamas et al, 2011;Chen et al, 2012;Gan et al, 2012;Li et al, 2012;Kumamoto et al, 2013). The selection procedure is shown in Figure 1, and the key patient characteristics are listed by study in Table 1.…”