Evidence map›Paper›PMID 21689610›Full record

ReviewClinics in liver disease2011

The global epidemiology of hepatocellular carcinoma: present and future.

Katherine A McGlynn, W Thomas London

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In one paragraph

Review in Clinics in liver disease, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 267 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
267citing papers in PubMed, 8 pooled it
20.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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

267 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 468 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Multimodal Meta-Analysis of 1,494 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Samples Reveals Significant Impact of Consensus Driver Genes on Phenotypes.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2019
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  11. Association of 25-Hydroxyvitamin D with Liver Cancer Incidence and Chronic Liver Disease Mortality in Finnish Male Smokers of the ATBC Study.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2018
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  14. Aflatoxin BJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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207 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 at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Katherine A McGlynnDivision of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, EPS-5020, 6120 Executive Boulevard, Rockville, MD 20852-7234, USA. mcglynnk@mail.nih.gov
W Thomas London
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and GeneticsFox Chase Cancer Center · US

Funding

Studies of Rare CancersZIACP010158 · NCI · DIVISION OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY AND GENETICS · PI MCGLYNN, KATHERINE · 2009 to 2025
$19.1M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA CP010158
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The global risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has been largely driven by hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection for the past century, along with hepatitis C virus (HCV), aflatoxin, excessive alcohol consumption, and obesity/diabetes. The dominant effect of HBV on global HCC risk should decline as the population vaccinated against HBV grows older. Infection with HCV is also expected to decline. Projections of HCV-related HCC rates remaining high for another 30 years may be overly pessimistic. Alcohol may be less of a factor in HCC in coming years. However, obesity and diabetes may become even more important risk factors for HCC.

Indexed as

Carcinoma, HepatocellularFemaleHepatitis B, ChronicHepatitis C, ChronicHumansIncidenceLiver NeoplasmsMale

Identifiers

PMID21689610
PMCPMC4141529
OpenAlexW2019166464

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Registered trials

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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.