Thus, the number of patients with positive lymph node status (OR: 0.37; 95% CI: 0.19–0.75; P = 0.006; I2 = 61%) or invasion of blood vessels by tumor cells (OR: 0.50; 95% CI: 0.28–0.90; P = 0.02; I2 = 0%) was higher in the group of survivin positive tumors. Here, BIRC5 is linked to neoplasm.