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ArticleCancer cell2016

A Word of Caution on New and Revolutionary Diagnostic Tests.

Eleftherios P Diamandis

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Article in Cancer cell, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Cancer-Like Fragmentomic Characteristics of Somatic Variants in Cell-Free DNA.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  4. High prevalence of mutant KRAS in circulating exosome-derived DNA from early-stage pancreatic cancer patients.Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Eleftherios P DiamandisDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Suite L6-201, 60 Murray Street, Toronto, ON M5T 3L9, Canada; Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University Health Network, 200 Elizabeth Street, Toronto, ON M5T 2C4, Canada; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Circle, Room 6231, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada. Electronic address: ediamandis@mtsinai.on.ca.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Biomarkers, TumorBlood PlateletsFemaleHumansMaleNeoplasmsSignal TransductionBiomarkers, Tumor

Identifiers

PMID26859453

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