“…Five and fifteen articles detected the expression of miR-142 in blood and tissues, respectively. A total of 12 solid tumors were included, namely HCC [ 8 , 10 ], CRC [ 9 ], NSCLC [ 11 , 24 ], CC [ 12 , 15 , 21 , 26 ], NPC [ 13 ], EC [ 18 ], ESCC [ 14 , 22 ], RCC [ 16 ], glioma [ 17 ], ICC [ 7 ], GC [19,20,], melanoma [ 23 ] and OSCC [ 25 ]. The average NOS score of the included articles was 6.40.…”