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ArticleCurrent breast cancer reports2013

Alcohol Intake and Breast Cancer Risk: Weighing the Overall Evidence.

Jasmine A McDonald, Abhishek Goyal, Mary Beth Terry

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Article in Current breast cancer reports, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 70 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
70citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

70 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 118 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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jasmine A McDonald722W 168St, R719 Department of Epidemiology Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University New York, NY 10032 jam2319@columbia.edu.
Abhishek Goyal
Mary Beth Terry
Columbia University · USColumbia University Irving Medical Center · US

Funding

CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY/BIOSTATISTICS/ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCEST32CA009529 · NCI · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI NEUGUT, ALFRED I. · 1985 to 2012
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NCI NIH HHS T32 CA009529
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Moderate alcohol consumption has been linked to an approximate 30-50% increased risk in breast cancer. Case-control and cohort studies have consistently observed this modest increase. We highlight recent evidence from molecular epidemiologic studies and studies of intermediate markers like mammographic density that provide additional evidence that this association is real and not solely explained by factors/correlates of the exposure and outcome present in non-randomized studies. We also review evidence from studies of higher risk women including

Indexed as

AlcoholAlcohol dehydrogenase (ADH)BRCA1BRCA2Breast cancerMammographic densityPreventionReviewRiskScreening

Identifiers

PMID24265860
PMCPMC3832299
OpenAlexW2011065479

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