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ArticleCancer medicine2014

The scientific method: pillar and pitfall of cancer research.

Shi-Ming Tu, Mehmet Asim Bilen, Nizar M Tannir

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Article in Cancer medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
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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

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Perspective: Dimensions of the scientific method.PLoS computational biology · 2019
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  10. Personalised cancer care: promises and challenges of targeted therapy.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2016
    Article
  11. Prostate Cancer Stem Cells: Research Advances.International journal of molecular sciences · 2015
    Review
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.

Shi-Ming TuDepartment of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, Unit 1374, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, P.O. Box 301439, 1155 Pressler Street, Houston, 77230-1439, Texas.
Mehmet Asim Bilen
Nizar M Tannir

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AnimalsBiomedical ResearchCell Transformation, NeoplasticDisease Models, AnimalHumansNeoplasmsNeoplastic Stem CellsQuality Improvement

Identifiers

PMID24711219
PMCPMC4303171

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Registered trials

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