Evaluation of Excess Statistical Significance in Meta-analyses of 98 Biomarker Associations with Cancer Risk — Konstantinos K. Tsilidis (2012) | RDL Network
Evaluation of Excess Statistical Significance in Meta-analyses of 98 Biomarker Associations with Cancer Risk
Article 2012 en
Authors
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Konstantinos K. Tsilidis
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Stefania Papatheodorou
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Εvangelos Εvangelou
Abstract
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Most well-documented biomarkers of cancer risk without evidence of bias pertain to infectious agents. Conversely, an excess of statistically significant findings was observed in studies of IGF/insulin and inflammation systems, suggesting reporting biases.
Konstantinos K. Tsilidis, Orestis A. Panagiotou, Emily S. Sena, Eleni Aretouli, Εvangelos Εvangelou, David W. Howells, Rustam Al‐Shahi Salman, Malcolm Macleod, John P A Ioannidis
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