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Table 4 The hospital control’s details

From: Association between MPO-463G > A polymorphism and cancer risk: evidence from 60 case-control studies

Author

Year

details

Matsuo

2001

Outpatients without any history of cancer

Matsuo

2001

Non-cancer controls

Xu

2002

Friends or spouses of patients (with either lung cancer or other cardiothoracic problems), with no matching characteristics

Krajinovic

2002

Selected from a large institutional DNA bank. Care was taken to match the patient population by selecting controls of French-Canadian origin served by Sainte-Justine Hospital

Kantarct

2002

Without diagnosis of lung cancer

Feyler

2002

Frequency matched on age, sex, and hospital, consisted of all consecutive Caucasian patients without previous or current malignant diseases

Dally

2002

Had no previous or present history of malignant diseases: the main diagnoses included alveolitis, bronchitis,pneumonia, fibrosis,sarcoidosis, COPD and emphysema

Chevriera

2001

All subjects hospitalized for different disorders except cancer

Chana

2004

Had no history of pulmonary diseases, and were receiving health evaluation for other reasons and matched for sex and age with the lung cancer patients

Hung

2004

Patients admitted to the same hospitals during the same period of time, with urological non-neoplastic diseases, including hydronephrosis, urolithiasis, malformative urological diseases, prostatic adenoma, and hypertrophia, urological traumas, orchiepididymitis, hydrocele and unspecified urinary symptoms

Schabath

2005

Healthy controls frequency matched to the cases on age (±5 years), gender,ethnicity, and smoking status (current, former, and never)

Park

2006

Healthy volunteers

Larsen

2006

Controls consisted of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) but without lung cancer (n ¼ 380), treated at the same hospital from 1998 to 2003, or healthy smokers attending a smoking cessation clinic held at the hospital from 2000 to 2003

Zhang

2007

No known malignant diseases

Yanga

2007

Healty individuals without lung cancer or any other cancer

Oliveira

2007

Individuals admitted in the Pediatric department of the Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil without osteosarcoma

Mustea

2007

The control group consisted of similarly aged women with no history of cancer and all of them were treated for benign gynecological diseases. None of them had previously undergone a hysterectomy

Yoon

2008

Healthy control

Price

2008

Healthy controls were frequency matched for age and sex. The controls were healthy nonblood-related family members (usually spouses) and friends of other cancer/surgical patients and were used as a shared set of controls for aerodigestive cancers

Choi

2008

Free of both prostate cancer and lung cancer

Saygilii

2009

Healthy volunteers and No one in the control group had a smoking history or chronic use of any drugs

Klinchid

2009

Healthy volunteers and diabetic patients

Wu

2010

With the same habits and without a present or previous history of any cancer

Hsieh

2010

Non-leiomyoma

Guo

2010

Spouse or geographically matched residents who were EBV/IgA/VCA positive (IgA+) or EBV/IgA/ VCA negative (IgA-) and NPC free at the time of study enrollment

Nahon

2011

HCV-induced cirrhosis

Wang

2011

Non-cancer controls

Li

2011

Healthy had no current or previous diagnosis of cancer and genetic disease

Li

2011

Diagnosed as normal by histopathology of ophageal squamous epithelial cells

Arslan

2011

Healthy individuals without any history of cancer

Jang

2012

Individuals without gastic cancer

Carmo

2012

They had persistent anti-HCV antibodies and were HCVRNA positive. Presence of hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibodies were considered as exclusion criteria

Tefik

2013

Normal DRE and serum PSA levels of <4 ng/mL

Bag

2014

Normal healthy individuals with no history of cancer

Kiyohara

2014

Without a clinical history of any type of cancer past or present, ischemic heart disease or chronic respiratory diseases