Is there a breast cancer virus?

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.

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.

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Prevalence of MMTV-like sequences in breast cancer samples in Romanian patients-there is a geographic difference compared to the Western world.Infectious agents and cancer · 2023
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2. Presence of high-risk HPVs, EBV, and MMTV in human triple-negative breast cancer.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2021
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3. Mouse Mammary Tumor Virus (MMTV)-LikeInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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4. Mouse mammary tumor virus in human breast cancer red herring or smoking gun?The American journal of pathology · 2011
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Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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