Fig 1.
Flow chart for the selection of records to include.
Table 1.
Main characteristics of all the studies included in the meta-analysis.
Table 2.
Main characteristics of all the studies included in the meta-analysis.
Table 3.
Quality assessment of eligible studies with Newcastle-Ottawa Scale.
Fig 2.
Forest plot of hazard ratios (HRs) for OS of high SPARC expression versus low expression in pancreatic cancer.
A. The HRs for OS in multivariate analysis; B. The HRs for OS in Estimate; C.The HRs for OS in univariate analysis; D. The subgroup about detection methods, including in the stroma and in the tumor, in the multivariate analysis.
Table 4.
Subgroup analyses of multivariate analysis and estimate for overall survival.
Fig 3.
A. was about multivariate analysis; B. was about estimate; C. was about univariate analysis.