Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28832967›Full record

ArticleCancer2017

Making the grade: The newest US Preventive Services Task Force prostate cancer screening recommendation.

Richard M Hoffman, Robert J Volk, Andrew M D Wolf

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In one paragraph

Article in Cancer, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Association between Liver Fibrosis and Serum PSA among U.S. Men: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 2001-2010.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2019
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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.

Richard M HoffmanDepartment of Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa.ORCID 0000-0002-4714-7726
Robert J VolkDivision of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, Department of Health Services Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.ORCID 0000-0001-8811-5854
Andrew M D WolfDivision of Medicine, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Funding

Viral VectorP30CA086862 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI Christopher K Laubenthal · 2000 to 2026
$70.0M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA086862
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Biomarkers, TumorEarly Detection of CancerHumansMaleMass ScreeningNeoplasm GradingProstate-Specific AntigenProstatic NeoplasmsUnited StatesBiomarkers, TumorProstate-Specific Antigen

Identifiers

PMID28832967
PMCPMC5756476

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Registered trials

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