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ReviewCancer imaging : the official publication of the International Cancer Imaging Society2011

Can imaging help improve the survival of cancer patients?

K Miles

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Review in Cancer imaging : the official publication of the International Cancer Imaging Society, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 36% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. MR Elastography Analysis of Glioma Stiffness andAJNR. American journal of neuroradiology · 2018
    Article
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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

K MilesBrighton & Sussex Medical School, Brighton BN1 9PX, UK. k.a.miles@bsms.ac.uk
Brighton and Sussex Medical School · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Survival, quality-adjusted survival and mortality are important and related measures of outcome in cancer care. The impact of imaging on these outcomes can be ascertained from observational and modelling studies, frequently performed to evaluate cost-effectiveness. Examples where incorporation of imaging into cancer care can be shown to improve survival include breast cancer screening, characterization of solitary pulmonary nodules, staging of non-small cell lung cancer, treatment response assessment in Hodgkin lymphoma, postoperative surveillance of colorectal cancer and selective internal radiation therapy of colorectal liver metastases. Modelling suggests the greatest opportunities for improvements in survival through imaging detection of cancer may lie in the investigation of mildly symptomatic patients. For applications where the improvements in survival are more modest, use of imaging frequently has additional demonstrable benefits including reductions in health care expenditure.

Indexed as

Colorectal NeoplasmsHealth Care CostsHumansMarkov ChainsNeoplasm Recurrence, LocalNeoplasmsNeoplasm StagingTreatment Outcome

Identifiers

PMID22185954
PMCPMC3266574
OpenAlexW2077976582

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Registered trials

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