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SynthesisCancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology2017

Excess Weight as a Risk Factor Common to Many Cancer Sites: Words of Caution when Interpreting Meta-analytic Evidence.

Melina Arnold, Andrew G Renehan, Graham A Colditz

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Synthesis in Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing 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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Prolonging healthy aging: Longevity vitamins and proteins.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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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

3 authors.

Melina ArnoldSection of Cancer Surveillance, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France. ArnoldM@iarc.fr colditzg@wudosis.wustl.edu.
Andrew G RenehanDivision of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Graham A ColditzDivision of Public Health Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri. ArnoldM@iarc.fr colditzg@wudosis.wustl.edu.

Funding

Washington University Center for Cellular ImagingP30CA091842 · NCI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI TIMOTHY J. EBERLEIN · 2001 to 2026
$128.0M
Intramural NIH HHS Z99 CA999999NCI NIH HHS P30 CA091842World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Identifiers

PMID27908924
PMCPMC5413373

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