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ArticleJournal of the National Cancer Institute2015

Merkel cell carcinoma and immunosuppression: what we still need to know.

Frederick L Locke, Dana E Rollison, Vernon K Sondak

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Article in Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Merkel cell carcinoma.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Frederick L LockeDepartment of Blood & Marrow Transplantation, Moffitt Cancer Center, Department of Oncologic Sciences, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL (FLL); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Departments of Oncologic Sciences and Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL (DER); Department of Cutaneous Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Department of Oncologic Sciences and Surgery, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida FL (VKS).
Dana E RollisonDepartment of Blood & Marrow Transplantation, Moffitt Cancer Center, Department of Oncologic Sciences, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL (FLL); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Departments of Oncologic Sciences and Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL (DER); Department of Cutaneous Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Department of Oncologic Sciences and Surgery, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida FL (VKS).
Vernon K SondakDepartment of Blood & Marrow Transplantation, Moffitt Cancer Center, Department of Oncologic Sciences, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL (FLL); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Departments of Oncologic Sciences and Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL (DER); Department of Cutaneous Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Department of Oncologic Sciences and Surgery, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida FL (VKS). vernon.sondak@moffitt.org.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Immunocompromised HostCarcinoma, Merkel CellFemaleHumansImmunosuppressive AgentsMalePhotosensitizing AgentsSkin NeoplasmsUltraviolet RaysImmunosuppressive AgentsPhotosensitizing Agents

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PMID25575646

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