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ArticleJAMA surgery2017

Breast Cancer Genetic Testing Among African Patients With Breast Cancer: Deoxyribonucleic Acid Extraction From Tumor Tissue and International Multidisciplinary Partnerships.

Emmanuel Amankwaa-Frempong, Francis Agyemang Yeboah, Samuel Blay Nguah, Lisa A Newman

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Article in JAMA surgery, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing 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

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Genetic screening of FFPE breast cancer biopsies for theRevista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2025
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  7. Breast Cancer Risk in Women from Ghana Carrying Rare Germline Pathogenic Mutations.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2022
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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

4 authors.

Emmanuel Amankwaa-FrempongDepartment of Oncology, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana.
Francis Agyemang YeboahDepartment of Molecular Medicine, School of Medical Sciences-Kwame Nkrumah, University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
Samuel Blay NguahDepartment of Child Health, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana.
Lisa A NewmanInternational Center for the Study of Breast Cancer Subtypes, Detroit, Michigan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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AdultAgedDNAFemaleGenes, BRCA1Genes, BRCA2Genetic Carrier ScreeningGenetic TestingGenotypeGhanaHumansMiddle AgedMutationPedigreePhenotypeRisk FactorsDNA

Identifiers

PMID28514482
PMCPMC5831466

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