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ArticleClinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research2017

The Future of Surveillance in the Context of Cancer Predisposition: Through the Murky Looking Glass.

David Malkin, Kim E Nichols, Joshua D Schiffman, Sharon E Plon, Garrett M Brodeur

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Article in Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. Pediatric Cancer Predisposition and Surveillance Update: Summary Perspective and Future Directions.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2025
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  10. Whole-body MRI for cancer surveillance in ataxia-telangiectasia: A qualitative study of the perspectives of people affected by A-T and their families.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2023
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  14. Why do young people get cancer?Pediatric blood & cancer · 2020
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  15. Cancer Progress and Priorities: Childhood Cancer.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2020
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  16. Imaging of DICER1 syndrome.Pediatric radiology · 2019
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  18. Rhabdomyosarcoma.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 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

5 authors.

David MalkinThe Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. david.malkin@sickkids.ca.
Kim E NicholsSt. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
Joshua D SchiffmanIntermountain Primary Children's Hospital and Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Sharon E PlonBaylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas.
Garrett M BrodeurChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia, and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Funding

Pediatric Scholars ProgramK12HD043245 · NICHD · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI ST. GEME, JOSEPH W. · 2003 to 2022
$7.4M
NICHD NIH HHS K12 HD043245
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

At least 10% of children with cancer harbor a disease-associated pathogenic variant in a known cancer predisposition gene. It is widely accepted that pathogenic variants affecting other genes, epigenetic factors, or abnormalities in additional gene products may contribute to the etiology of many more childhood cancers. Effective preventive measures exist for only a few cancer types associated with predisposing conditions, but the development and implementation of surveillance protocols aimed at reducing morbidity and mortality in at-risk children through the early detection of cancer has emerged as an important clinical tool. The articles in this

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Genetic Predisposition to DiseaseChildGenetic TestingGerm-Line MutationHumansMedical OncologyNeoplasms

Identifiers

PMID29093018
PMCPMC7336256

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