Non-surgical treatment of early breast cancer: techniques on the way.

Alaa Hamza, Shymaa Elrefaey

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Article in Gland surgery, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing 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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

Tumor characterization and treatment monitoring of postsurgical human breast specimens using harmonic motion imaging (HMI).Breast cancer research : BCR · 2016
Article
Novel therapy for locally advanced triple-negative breast cancer.International journal of oncology · 2015
Article

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.

Alaa Hamza1 General Surgery Department, Medical Research Institute, Alexandria University, Egypt ; 2 Division of Plastic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, 435-20141 Milano, Italy ; 3 Faculity of medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt.

Shymaa Elrefaey1 General Surgery Department, Medical Research Institute, Alexandria University, Egypt ; 2 Division of Plastic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, 435-20141 Milano, Italy ; 3 Faculity of medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Trials are still on the way to evaluate different non-surgical techniques to treat early breast cancer with achieving maximum oncological control and aesthetic outcome. Also these techniques can help old patients to bypass surgical and radiation complications and facilitate the treatment of early breast cancer with minimum side effects.

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Breast cancernon-surgical treatmenttechniques

Identifiers

PMID25207205

DOI10.3978/j.issn.2227-684X.2013.10.09

PMCPMC4139132

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