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Table 1 Characteristics of the included studies

From: Effect of the TERT mutation on the prognosis of patients with urothelial carcinoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Author

Year

Country

design

Accrual

Histology

FU

Mutation detection

Survival outcomes

Participants (M/W)

Tumor grade (Low/High)

Tumor stage

(Ta-1/T2-4)

Age

(Median; range)

Gender

(male%)

Rachakonda

2013

Germany

prospective

1995–2010

BC

15y

PCR Sanger

OS

186/93

118/209

219/108

72.8(65.4–79.4)a

NR

Nakanishi

1999

Japan

retrospective

1970–1995

UTUC

300 m

In situ hybridization

DFS

42/80

77/51

NR

66(34–84)

71.9

OS

44/84

Yang CH

2008

China

retrospective

1995–2010

UC

10y

streptavidin–biotin method

RFS

50/44

13/81

NR

67(21–83)

41.5

Sumit

2017

America

retrospective

NR

UC

200 m

MSK-IMPACT

OS

266/122

35/353

38/84

66(58–74)

NR

DSS

266/122

MFS

198/91

Song Wu

2013

China

retrospective

NR

BC

120 m

Sanger

OS

120/96

NR

56/64

NR

NR

Ismail

2015

Germany

prospective

1995–2010

BC

10y

PCR Sanger

OS

102/79

87/127

148/66

72.8(65.4–79.4)a

NR

Jenny

2019

Germany

retrospective

2012–2018

BC

1600d

PCR

OS

63/12

25/50

50/25

75(49–97)

78.7

DSS

63/12

RFS

63/12

Ivan

2021

America

retrospective

2014–2020

UC

6y

NR

OS

47/31

NR

NR

71(66–76)

62.8

Neal

2023

America

retrospective

2014–2021

UC

7y

NR

PFS

64/49

NR

NR

67(35–85)

76%

OS

64/49

  1. FU Follow-up, M/W Mutant/wild-type, NR Not reported, MSK-IMPACT Memorial Sloan Kettering Integrated Mutation Profiling of Actionable Cancer Targets, PCR Polymerase Chain Reaction, athese numbers are median (inter-quartile range)