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Zhi-ming Zeng,1 Fei-fei Luo,2 Lin-xia Zou,3 Rong-quan He,1 Deng-hua Pan,2 Xin Chen,2 Ting-ting Xie,2 Yuan-qing Li,2 Zhi-gang Peng,1 Gang Chen2 1Department of Medical Oncology, 2Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, 3Department of Children Rehabilitation Medicine, Guangxi Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Nanning, China Background: Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are causally associated with the tumorigenesis of several classes of cancers. However, the prevalence of HPV in gastric cancer (GC) has not yet been systematically reviewed. Hence, a meta-analysis was conducted to estimate the HPV prevalence in patients with GC, and its potential etiologic significance was assessed. Methods: The pooled HPV prevalence and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were estimated among all GC patients. Heterogeneity was described by using the I2 statistic. Sources of heterogeneity were explored by meta-regression and stratified analyses. The meta-influence was applied to evaluate the influence of a single study on the pooled estimates. Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% CIs were computed for case–control studies. For research providing clinicopathological parameters of age, sex, pathological, differentiated, and clinical stages, and HPV subtypes, the corresponding pooled ORs and 95% CIs were also calculated. Results: Thirty studies were included in the current meta-analysis, involving 1,917 patients with GC and 576 controls. The pooled HPV prevalence was 28.0% (95% CI: 23.2%, 32.7%) among all the patients with GC, and the I2 was 96.9% (P |
