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ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2015

Cancer risk: role of environment.

Nicholas A Ashford, Patricia Bauman, Halina S Brown, Richard W Clapp, Adam M Finkel, David Gee, Dale B Hattis, Marco Martuzzi, Annie J Sasco, Jennifer B Sass

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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 29 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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29citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

29 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Association of Vitamin E Intake with Reduced Risk of Kidney Cancer: A Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2015
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  11. The Interaction Between the Microbiome and Tumors.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2021
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  16. Cancer Prevention and Treatment by Wholistic Nutrition.Journal of nature and science · 2017
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  17. The role of the microbiome in cancer development and therapy.CA: a cancer journal for clinicians · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Nicholas A AshfordSociotechnical Systems Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. nashford@mit.edu.
Patricia BaumanBauman Foundation, Washington, DC 20009, USA.
Halina S BrownDepartment of International Development, Community, and Environment, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610, USA.
Richard W ClappBoston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA. University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA 01854, USA.
Adam M FinkelPenn Program on Regulation, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
David GeeInstitute of Environment, Health, and Societies, Brunel University, London, SW11 6HT, UK.
Dale B HattisThe George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610, USA.
Marco MartuzziWorld Health Organization-Regional Office for Europe, European Centre for Environment and Health, 53113 Bonn, Germany.
Annie J SascoEpidemiology for Cancer Prevention, Team on HIV, Cancer and Global Health, Inserm U 897-Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Bordeaux Segalen University, 33076 Bordeaux, France.
Jennifer B SassNatural Resources Defense Council, Washington, DC 20005, USA. George Washington University, Washington, DC 20037, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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