MTDH and metastatic malignant neoplasm in the lymph nodes: To examine the relationship between high tumoral MTDH expression and lymph node metastasis in cervical cancer, we combined OR from two studies7, 19 and the pooled OR was 4.732 (95% CI: 1.922–11.652, P = 0.001) (Fig. 4B, Table 3).