Evidence map›Paper›PMID 22054881›Full record

ReviewClinics in chest medicine2011

Molecular biology of lung cancer: clinical implications.

Jill E Larsen, John D Minna

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Review in Clinics in chest medicine, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 123 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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123citing 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

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

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  5. Evaluation of ICAM and VCAM as biomarkers in serum and bronchoscopic lavage samples of lung cancer patients.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  11. Single-cell transcriptomic analyses provide insights into SPP1Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII · 2025
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  12. Microfabricated Organ-Specific Models of Tumor Microenvironments.Annual review of biomedical engineering · 2025
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63 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.

Jill E LarsenHamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research, Simmons Cancer Center, 6000 Harry Hines Boulevard, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-8593, USA.
John D Minna

Funding

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS--SPORE IN LUNG CANCERP50CA070907 · NCI · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI GIBBONS, DON LYNN · 1996 to 2024
$57.4M
NCI NIH HHS P50 CA070907NCI NIH HHS P50CA70907
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lung cancer is a heterogeneous disease clinically, biologically, histologically, and molecularly. Understanding the molecular causes of this heterogeneity, which might reflect changes occurring in different classes of epithelial cells or different molecular changes occurring in the same target lung epithelial cells, is the focus of current research. Identifying the genes and pathways involved, determining how they relate to the biological behavior of lung cancer, and their utility as diagnostic and therapeutic targets are important basic and translational research issues. This article reviews current information on the key molecular steps in lung cancer pathogenesis, their timing, and clinical implications.

Indexed as

Biomarkers, TumorChromosome AberrationsEpigenesis, GeneticGenetic MarkersGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansLoss of HeterozygosityLung NeoplasmsMutationBiomarkers, TumorGenetic Markers

Identifiers

PMID22054881
PMCPMC3367865

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