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ArticleJournal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology2014

Markers for the early detection of prostate cancer: some principles for statistical reporting and interpretation.

Andrew J Vickers

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Article in Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. NCCN Guidelines Insights: Prostate Cancer Early Detection, Version 2.2016.Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN · 2016
    Guideline
  2. Article
  3. Liquid Biopsy Potential Biomarkers in Prostate Cancer.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018
    Article
  4. Review
  5. Letter to the editor concerning 'Do prostate cancer risk models improve the predictive accuracy of PSA screening? A meta-analysis'.Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology · 2015
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Andrew J VickersMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY vickersa@mskcc.org.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Early Detection of CancerAntigens, NeoplasmHumansMaleProstate-Specific AntigenProstatic NeoplasmsAntigens, Neoplasmprostate cancer antigen 3, humanProstate-Specific Antigen

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