FTX and hepatocellular carcinoma: In addition, the two heterogeneous studies [15,23] (I2 = 86.8%, P = 0.006) with 199 patients with HCC were included, and the pooled results indicated that high FTX expression was related to a shorter DFS (high vs. low: HR = 3.78, 95% CI = [1.08, 13.22], P=0.037, Figure 3B).