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ReviewWiley interdisciplinary reviews. Systems biology and medicine2017

Cancer and inflammation.

Lance L Munn

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Review in Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Systems biology and medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 132 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
132citing papers in PubMed, 8 pooled it
9.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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

132 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 256 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lance L MunnDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Massachusetts General Hospital · US

Funding

Systems biology of lymphatic transportR01HL128168 · NHLBI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI MUNN, LANCE L., PADERA, TIMOTHY P · 2015 to 2019
$2.9M
Targeting glycocalyx-mediated mechanisms of tumor metastasisR01CA204949 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI MUNN, LANCE L., TARBELL, JOHN M · 2017 to 2021
$2.3M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA204949NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL128168
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The relationship between inflammation and cancer has been recognized since the 17

Indexed as

InflammationAdaptive ImmunityB7-H1 AntigenCell Adhesion MoleculesCytokinesHumansImmune SystemMicroRNAsNeoplasmsNF-kappa BB7-H1 AntigenCell Adhesion MoleculesCytokinesMicroRNAsNF-kappa B

Identifiers

PMID27943646
PMCPMC5561333
OpenAlexW2563114544

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Registered trials

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