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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine2014

Melanoma: clinical features and genomic insights.

Elena B Hawryluk, Hensin Tsao

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In one paragraph

Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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34citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

34 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  5. Cutaneous melanoma.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2025
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  12. p53 Family in Resistance to Targeted Therapy of Melanoma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  14. Signal pathways of melanoma and targeted therapy.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2021
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  17. Unraveling the Wide Spectrum of Melanoma Biomarkers.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Elena B HawrylukDermatology Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114.
Hensin TsaoDepartment of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114.
Boston Children's Hospital · USHarvard University · US

Funding

Molecular Risk Assessment in Hereditary MelanomaK24CA149202 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI TSAO, HENSIN · 2010 to 2019
$1.9M
NCI NIH HHS K24 CA149202
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent efforts in genomic research have enabled the characterization of molecular mechanisms underlying many types of cancers, ushering novel approaches for diagnosis and therapeutics. Melanoma is a molecularly heterogeneous disease, as many genetic alterations have been identified and the clinical features can vary. Although discoveries of frequent mutations including BRAF have already made clinically significant impact on patient care, there is a growing body of literature suggesting a role for additional mutations, driver and passenger types, in disease pathophysiology. Although some mutations have been strongly associated with clinical phenotypes of melanomas (such as physical distribution or morphologic subtype), the function or implications of many of the recently identified mutations remains less clear. The phenotypic and clinical impact of genomic mutations in melanoma remains a promising opportunity for progress in the care of melanoma patients.

Indexed as

MutationDNA Mutational AnalysisDNA, NeoplasmGenomicsHumansMelanomaPhenotypeSkin NeoplasmsDNA, Neoplasm

Identifiers

PMID25183853
PMCPMC4143108
OpenAlexW2158034722

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