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Trial reportClinical & experimental metastasis2012

Overview and update of the phase III Multicenter Selective Lymphadenectomy Trials (MSLT-I and MSLT-II) in melanoma.

Donald L Morton

Abstract readClinical Trial, Phase IIIMulticenter StudyReview
In one paragraph

Trial report in Clinical & experimental metastasis, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
32citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
8.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 143 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Donald L MortonJohn Wayne Cancer Institute, 2200 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA. mortond@JCWI.org
Saint John's Health Center · US

Funding

SURGICAL ONCOLOGY WITH COMBINATION THERMO-CHEMOTHERAPYP01CA029605 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI COCHRAN, ALISTAIR JOHN · 1985 to 2013
$75.2M
NCI NIH HHS CA 29605NCI NIH HHS P01 CA029605
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This short review offers an update on the first and second Multicenter Selective Lymphadenectomy Trials (MSLT-I and MSLT-II) for patients with melanoma, and briefly traces the development of intraoperative lymphatic mapping and sentinel node biopsy.

Indexed as

Lymph Node ExcisionSentinel Lymph Node BiopsyHumansLymphatic MetastasisMelanomaQuality of LifeSkin NeoplasmsSurvival

Identifiers

PMID22729520
PMCPMC3463679
OpenAlexW1985198734

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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.