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SynthesisMedicine2021

Effect of aspirin use on survival benefits of breast cancer patients: A meta-analysis.

Jiamin Liu, Fengxian Zheng, Meng Yang, Xiaoyong Wu, Aimin Liu

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Synthesis in Medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  8. The role of aspirin in preventing gastrointestinal cancers.Gastrointestinal oncology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jiamin LiuCollege of Medicine, Guangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanning, China.
Fengxian ZhengDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Affiliated Danzhou People's Hospital of Hainan Medical University, Hainan, China.
Meng YangDepartment of Dermatology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China.
Xiaoyong WuDepartment of General Surgery, Affiliated Danzhou People's Hospital of Hainan Medical University, Hainan, China.
Aimin LiuDepartment of Basic Nursing, School of Nursing, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThe purpose of this study is to investigate whether aspirin improves the prognosis of breast cancer patients by meta analysis.

methodsSearched PubMed, EMBASE, and other databases for literature on the relationship between aspirin use and breast cancer prognosis, with the deadline of October 2019. The related results of all-cause death, breast cancer-specific death, and breast cancer recurrence/metastasis were extracted to combine the effect amount. The sensitivity analysis and published bias analysis were carried out for the included data. Stata12.0 software was used to complete all statistical analysis.

resultsA total of 13 papers were included in the study, including 142,644 breast cancer patients. The results of meta-analysis showed that patients who took aspirin were associated with lower breast cancer-specific death (HR = 0.69, 95% CI = 0.61-0.76), all-cause death (HR = 0.78, 95% CI = 0.71-0.84), and risk of recurrence/metastasis (HR = 0.91, 95% CI: 0.82-1.00).

conclusionsAspirin use may improve all-cause mortality, specific mortality, and risk of recurrence/metastasis in patients with breast cancer.

Indexed as

Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-SteroidalAspirinBreast NeoplasmsFemaleHumansNeoplasm Recurrence, LocalPrognosisSurvival RateAnti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-SteroidalAspirin

Identifiers

PMID34414938
PMCPMC8376366

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