Characteristics of the studies related to the effects of GSTs genetic polymorphisms and lung cancer risk.

Pathologic diagnosis¶: ALL means that all lung cancer cases were confirmed by pathologic diagnosis; PARTIAL means that partial cases were confirmed by pathologic diagnosis; NA means that relative data were not available in original studies.SC: Squamous Carcinoma; AC: Adenocarcinoma; SCLC: Small Cell Lung Carcinoma; NSCLC: Non-small-cell Lung Carcinoma. *: Articles published in English.: These data were omitted because of a larger sample from the same studied population by the same research group.a/b: A study with two distinct controls encompassed population-based and hospital-based could been analyzed, respectively.