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ReviewJournal of biology2009

Infectious causes of cancer and their detection.

Lucy Dalton-Griffin, Paul Kellam

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Review in Journal of biology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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27citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  19. Traces of ATCV-1 associated with laboratory component contamination.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015
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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.

Lucy Dalton-GriffinDepartment of Infection, University College London, Cleveland Street, London W1T 4JF, UK.
Paul Kellam

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Molecular techniques for identifying pathogens associated with cancer continue to be developed, including one reported recently in BMC Medical Genomics. Identifying a causal infectious agent helps in understanding the biology of these cancers and can lead ultimately to the development of antimicrobial drugs and vaccines for their treatment and prevention.

Indexed as

Genetic TechniquesHelicobacter InfectionsHumansMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesNeoplasmsSchistosomiasis haematobiaTumor Virus Infections

Identifiers

PMID19678917
PMCPMC2736673

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