Methylphenidate in the management of cancer-related fatigue.

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

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

1. Bibliometric and visualization analyses of cancer-related fatigue research published worldwide from 2001 to 2023.Frontiers in oncology · 2024
   Pooled it
2. The Health Promoting Mindfulness or Qigong Educational Programs for Beneficial Lifestyle Changes of Cancer Survivors.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2020
   Trial
3. Chronic Fatigue in Cancer Survivorship: Psychiatry Versus Oncology or Psychiatry with Oncology?Current oncology reports · 2025
   Review
4. Management of cancer-related fatigue in Taiwan: an evidence-based consensus for screening, assessment and treatment.Japanese journal of clinical oncology · 2023
   Article
5. Palliative Care and the Management of Common Distressing Symptoms in Advanced Cancer: Pain, Breathlessness, Nausea and Vomiting, and Fatigue.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2020
   Review
6. Promoting Physical and Psychological Rehabilitation Activities and Evaluating Potential Links Among Cancer-Related Fatigue, Fear of Recurrence, Quality of Life, and Physiological Indicators in Cancer Survivors.Integrative cancer therapies · 2018
   Article
7. The problem of fatigue in patients suffering from neoplastic disease.Contemporary oncology (Poznan, Poland) · 2017
   Review

Corrections and comments

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  Methylphenidate and/or a nursing telephone intervention for fatigue in patients with advanced cancer: a randomized, placebo-controlled, phase II trial.2013

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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