Table 1.
Characteristics of included studies.
Fig 1.
Flow chart for the process of selecting eligible articles.
Fig 2.
Forest plot for association between telomere length and cancer overall survival.
Results are presented for random effects models.
Fig 3.
Forest plot for association between telomere length and cancer progression.
Disease-free survival, treatment-free survival, progression-free survival and relapse-free survival were involved. Results are presented for random effects models.
Fig 4.
The association between telomere length and cancer prognosis in different cancers.
Only cancer types included at least two studies are presented.
Table 2.
Subgroup analyses of telomere length and overall cancer survival.
Table 3.
Subgroup analysis of telomere length and cancer progression.
Fig 5.
Publication bias within cancer overall survival.