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ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2015

Cancer risk: prevention is crucial.

Carolyn Gotay, Trevor Dummer, John Spinelli

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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17citing 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

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

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Current status and perspectives in environmental oncology.Chronic diseases and translational medicine · 2024
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  5. The role of genomics in global cancer prevention.Nature reviews. Clinical oncology · 2021
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  8. Cancer Prevention and Treatment by Wholistic Nutrition.Journal of nature and science · 2017
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  15. Strategies to Prevent "Bad Luck" in Cancer.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2015
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  16. Is bad luck the main cause of cancer?Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2015
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  17. "Bad Luck Mutations": DNA Mutations Are not the Whole Answer to Understanding Cancer Risk.Dose-response : a publication of International Hormesis Society
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Carolyn GotaySchool of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z3, Canada. carolyn.gotay@ubc.ca.
Trevor DummerSchool of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z3, Canada.
John SpinelliCancer Control Research, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, V5Z1L3, Canada. School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z3, Canada.

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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