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ArticleMedical oncology (Northwood, London, England)2017

Need for new review of article on ketogenic dietary regimes for cancer patients.

Rainer J Klement, Richard D Feinman, Elena C Gross, Colin E Champ, Dominic P D'Agostino, Eugene J Fine, Ulrike Kämmerer, Angela Poff, Jong M Rho, Thomas N Seyfried and 1 more

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Article in Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  6. Issues with data and analyses: Errors, underlying themes, and potential solutions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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  9. Article on ketogenic dietary regimes for cancer highly misleading.Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 10 institutions in 4 countries.

Rainer J KlementDepartment of Radiotherapy and Radiation Oncology, Leopoldina Hospital Schweinfurt, Robert-Koch-Str. 10, 97422, Schweinfurt, Germany. rainer_klement@gmx.de.
Richard D FeinmanSUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Elena C GrossUniversity of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Colin E ChampUniversity of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Dominic P D'AgostinoUniversity of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.
Eugene J FineSUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Ulrike KämmererUniversity Hospital of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
Angela PoffUniversity of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.
Jong M RhoFaculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Thomas N SeyfriedBoston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.
Adrienne C ScheckBarrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
University of South Florida · USAlbert Einstein College of Medicine · USBarrow Neurological Institute · USBoston College · USLeopoldina Krankenhaus Schweinfurt · DESUNY Downstate Health Sciences University · USUniversitätsklinikum Würzburg · DEUniversity of Basel · CHUniversity of Calgary · CAUniversity of Pittsburgh Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Diet, KetogenicNeoplasmsHumans

Identifiers

PMID28452037
OpenAlexW2608513919

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.