Efficacy and safety of chemoradiotherapy versus chemotherapy for resectable gastric cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Ann Med Surg (Lond) · 2025 · PMC12401422 · PMID 40901159

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2 ). When all studies were combined, the pooled HR was 0.85 (95% CI: 0.73–1.00; P = 0.05), suggesting a barely statistically significant benefit of CRT.

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borderline significanceno p-value reported

In the previous meta-analyses, Matuscheck et al was not able to record any improvement in OS and Lu et al was able to observe an improvement trend, though it had borderline significance [ 2 ] .

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