Marriage is as protective as chemotherapy in cancer care.

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

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Who cites it

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Corrections and comments

• Commented on by
  Reply to M.g. Bare et al.2014
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  Omission of sexual and gender minority patients.2014
• Comment on
  Marital status and survival in patients with cancer.2013

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