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ReviewNature reviews. Cancer2008

Ageing, oxidative stress and cancer: paradigms in parallax.

Christopher C Benz, Christina Yau

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Review in Nature reviews. Cancer, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 113 papers.

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113citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

113 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Oxidative Stress and Age-Related Tumors.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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53 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Christopher C BenzChristopher C. Benz and Christina Yau are at the Buck Institute for Age Research, Novato, California 94945, USA.
Christina Yau

Funding

Tissue and Outcomes CoreP50CA058207 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI GRAY, JOE W. · 1992 to 2012
$32.7M
PROTEOMICSP01AG025901 · NIA · BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING · PI GIBSON, BRADFORD WAYNE · 2007 to 2011
$8.6M
Mass spectrometry to decode PTM patterns and enhance the Biomarker utility of ERR01CA071468 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO · PI BENZ, CHRISTOPHER · 1996 to 2014
$4.1M
mRNA Translation, TOR and Geroscience (2 of 11)RL1AG032113 · NIA · BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING · PI KAPAHI, PANKAJ · 2007 to 2011
$3.2M
Biology of Breast Cancers Arising in Older WomenR01AG020521 · NIA · BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING · PI BENZ, CHRISTOPHER · 2003 to 2007
$2.8M
NCI NIH HHS P50 CA058207NCI NIH HHS P50-CA58207NCI NIH HHS R01 CA071468NCI NIH HHS R01-CA71468NCRR NIH HHS U54RR024346NIA NIH HHS P01 AG025901NIA NIH HHS P01-AG025901NIA NIH HHS R01 AG020521NIA NIH HHS R01-AG020521NIA NIH HHS RL1 AG032113NIA NIH HHS RL1-AG032113
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Two paradigms central to geroscience research are that aging is associated with increased oxidative stress and increased cancer risk. Therefore, it could be deduced that cancers arising with ageing will show evidence of increased oxidative stress. Recent studies of gene expression in age-controlled breast cancer cases indicate that this deduction is false, posing parallax views of these two paradigms, and highlighting the unanswered question: does ageing cause or simply permit cancer development?

Indexed as

AgingAnimalsGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseHumansNeoplasmsOxidative Stress

Identifiers

PMID18948997
PMCPMC2603471

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