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ArticleInternational journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics2015

Pride, Prejudice, or Science: Attitudes Towards the Results of the TARGIT-A Trial of Targeted Intraoperative Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer.

Jayant S Vaidya, Max Bulsara, Frederik Wenz, David Joseph, Christobel Saunders, Samuele Massarut, Henrik Flyger, Wolfgang Eiermann, Michael Alvarado, Laura Esserman and 6 more

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Article in International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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18citing papers in PubMed, 3 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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. DEGRO practical guideline for partial-breast irradiation.Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] · 2020
    Guideline
  3. Partial breast irradiation for early breast cancer.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016
    Pooled it
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  5. Accelerated partial breast irradiation with external beam radiotherapy : First results of the German phase 2 trial.Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] · 2017
    Trial
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  13. Personalized radiotherapy for invasive breast cancer in 2017 : National S3 guidelines and DEGRO and AGO recommendations.Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] · 2017
    Article
  14. Current controversies in radiotherapy for breast cancer.Radiation oncology (London, England) · 2017
    Review
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  17. Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation in Clinical Practice.Breast care (Basel, Switzerland) · 2015
    Review
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Jayant S VaidyaClinical Trials Group, Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, University College London, London, UK; Department of Surgery, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK; Department of Surgery, Whittington Health, London, UK. Electronic address: jayant.vaidya@ucl.ac.uk.
Max BulsaraDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, WA, Australia.
Frederik WenzDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Centre Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
David JosephDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, WA, Australia.
Christobel SaundersDepartment of Surgery, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, WA, Australia; School of Surgery, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia.
Samuele MassarutDepartment of Surgery, Centro di Riferimento Oncologia, Aviano, Italy.
Henrik FlygerDepartment of Breast Surgery, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Wolfgang EiermannDepartment of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Red Cross Hospital, Munich, Germany.
Michael AlvaradoDepartment of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, California.
Laura EssermanDepartment of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, California.
Mary FalzonDepartment of Pathology, University College London Hospitals, London, UK.
Chris Brew-GravesClinical Trials Group, Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, University College London, London, UK.
Ingrid PotykaClinical Trials Group, Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, University College London, London, UK.
Jeffrey S TobiasDepartment of Clinical Oncology, University College London Hospitals, London, UK.
Michael BaumClinical Trials Group, Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, University College London, London, UK.
TARGIT trialists' group

Funding

Department of Health 07/60/49Department of Health 10/104/07
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Breast NeoplasmsCarcinoma, Ductal, BreastFemaleHumans

Identifiers

PMID26068479
PMCPMC4464618

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