Abstract
Accumulating evidence suggests the protective role of dietary lycopene against the risk of ovarian cancer due to its antioxidant activity, but not all relevant studies have deduced positive results. The aim of the present study was to investigate the exact relationship between dietary lycopene intake and ovarian cancer risk by conducting a meta-analysis. The 10 studies included in our meta-analysis were selected from the PubMed database, and final risk estimates were calculated by using a random-effects model. Our study demonstrated an insignificant reverse association between dietary lycopene and ovarian cancer risk (OR, 0.963; 95% CI, 0.859–1.080), and subgroup analysis stratified by study design, location, histological type of ovarian cancer, and length of dietary recall showed no statistically significant results. No heterogeneity was observed (p = 0.336, I2 = 11.6%). Our present meta-analysis suggests the potential role of dietary lycopene against the risk of ovarian cancer among postmenopausal women, which provides opportunity for developments in the prevention of ovarian cancer.
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CORRIGENDUM: Meta-analysis of the association between dietary lycopene intake and ovarian cancer risk in postmenopausal women
The original version of this Article contained two typographical errors in the spelling of the authors Xinli Li and Jiuhong Xu, which were incorrectly given as LI-Xinli and XU-Jiuhong respectively. These have been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of the Article
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CORRIGENDUM: Meta-analysis of the association between dietary lycopene intake and ovarian cancer risk in postmenopausal women.
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