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ReviewTranslational lung cancer research2016

Is surgery still the optimal treatment for stage I non-small cell lung cancer?

Drew Moghanaki, Joe Y Chang

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Review in Translational lung cancer research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 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

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Strategic Initiatives for Veterans with Lung Cancer.Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS · 2020
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  7. Lobectomy: no port at all?Annals of translational medicine · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Drew Moghanaki1 Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23224, USA ; 2 Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Joe Y Chang1 Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23224, USA ; 2 Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is debate about what is the optimal treatment for operable stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Although surgery has been the standard of care for centuries, recent retrospective and prospective randomized studies indicated that stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) could be an option for this group of patients with similar survival and less toxicities. However, to change the standard of care, more studies are needed and participating ongoing larger randomized studies is the best approach to resolve this controversy.

Indexed as

non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)stage Istereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR)stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT)Surgery

Identifiers

PMID27183993
PMCPMC4858582

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