Among the included articles, seven of them (Meng et al., 2012; Nodin et al., 2012; Zhang et al., 2014; Kowalczyk et al., 2015; Baba et al., 2016; Lv et al., 2016)with a number of 1772 patients studied the relationship between SATB1 and lymph node metastasis. The gene discussed is SATB1; the disease is metastatic malignant neoplasm in the lymph nodes.