Evidence map›Paper›PMID 19332842›Full record

ArticleRadiology2009

The linear no-threshold relationship is inconsistent with radiation biologic and experimental data.

Maurice Tubiana, Ludwig E Feinendegen, Chichuan Yang, Joseph M Kaminski

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Article in Radiology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 160 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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160citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

160 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  10. Patient radiation safety in the intensive care unit.The British journal of radiology · 2025
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  20. The Future of Radioactive Medicine.Radiation research · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Maurice TubianaDepartment of Medicine, Centre Antoine Beclere, Paris, France.
Ludwig E Feinendegen
Chichuan Yang
Joseph M Kaminski

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Evidence-Based MedicineLinear ModelsAir Pollution, RadioactiveBody BurdenDose-Response Relationship, RadiationEnvironmental ExposureHumansIncidenceNeoplasms, Radiation-InducedProportional Hazards ModelsRadiation DosageReproducibility of ResultsRisk AssessmentSensitivity and Specificity

Identifiers

PMID19332842
PMCPMC2663584

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.