Prognostic biomarkers are of great significance to predict the outcome of patients with cancer, to guide the clinical treatments, to elucidate tumorigenesis mechanisms, and offer the opportunity of id
PH, P value of heterogeneity test; PZ, P value of Z test; PE, P value of Egger's test; CRC, colorectal cancer; ESCC, esophageal squamous cell carcinoma; OS, overall survival; MFS, metastasis-free surv
Bold items have been considered statistically significant. Multivariate analysis and Cox proportional hazards regression model were used. Variables were adopted for their prognostic significance by un