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ReviewBritish journal of cancer2013

The benefits and harms of breast cancer screening: an independent review.

M G Marmot, D G Altman, D A Cameron, J A Dewar, S G Thompson, M Wilcox

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Review in British journal of cancer, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 462 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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462citing papers in PubMed, 10 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

462 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Late-Stage Outcomes as Surrogates for Mortality in Cancer Screening Trials: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2025
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  17. The Increasing Importance of Breast Cancer in the United Arab Emirates.Asia-Pacific journal of clinical oncology · 2026
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402 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

M G MarmotUCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL Institute of Health Equity, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB, UK.m.marmot@ucl.ac.uk
D G Altman
D A Cameron
J A Dewar
S G Thompson
M Wilcox

Funding

British Heart Foundation RG/07/008/23674British Heart Foundation RG/08/014/24067Medical Research Council G0100222Medical Research Council G0902037Medical Research Council G19/35Medical Research Council G8802774Medical Research Council MC_U105260792Medical Research Council MR/L003120/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AgedBreast NeoplasmsDiagnostic ErrorsEarly Detection of CancerEvidence-Based MedicineFemaleHumansMiddle AgedRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicRisk AssessmentUnited Kingdom

Identifiers

PMID23744281
PMCPMC3693450

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