Which is the better treatment for lung metastases from giant cell tumor of bone, metastasectomy or non-metastasectomy? A systematic review

UMIN ID: UMIN000038826

Registered date:09/12/2019

Basic Information

• Recruitment status: Complete: follow-up complete
• Health condition(s) or Problem(s) studied: Lung metastases from giant cell tumor of bone
• Date of first enrollment: 2019/12/09
• Target sample size: 100
• Countries of recruitment: Japan,Europe
• Study type: Others,meta-analysis etc

Outcome(s)

• Primary Outcome: We counted only tumor-related death as the outcome, and excluded the death unrelated to disease and the death related to chemotherapy.

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

• Age minimum: Not applicable
• Age maximum: Not applicable
• Gender: Male and Female
• Exclude criteria: The patients who had inoperable lung metastases and were treated with observation, chemotherapy, or radiotherapy, were excluded.We excluded studies without a comparison group, those without a report of tumor-related death, isolated case reports or case series including fewer than five patients and non-English and non-Japanese language abstracts. We did not place any restrictions on the date of publication.

Related Information

• Primary Sponsor: Nara Medical University
• Source(s) of Monetary Support: Nara Medical University