Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29117361›Full record

ArticleJournal of the National Cancer Institute2017

RE: Local Treatment of Unresectable Colorectal Liver Metastases: Results of a Randomized Phase II Trial.

Fergus Macbeth, Vern Farewell, Tom Treasure

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Article in Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing 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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Pulmonary Metastasectomy in Colorectal Cancer: updated analysis of 93 randomized patients - control survival is much better than previously assumed.Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Fergus MacbethAffiliations of authors: The Centre for Trials Research, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK (FM); MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (VF); Clinical Operational Research Unit, University College London, London, UK (TT).
Vern FarewellAffiliations of authors: The Centre for Trials Research, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK (FM); MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (VF); Clinical Operational Research Unit, University College London, London, UK (TT).
Tom TreasureAffiliations of authors: The Centre for Trials Research, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK (FM); MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (VF); Clinical Operational Research Unit, University College London, London, UK (TT).

Funding

Cancer Research UK 11393Medical Research Council MC_U105261167Medical Research Council MC_UU_00002/8
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Colorectal NeoplasmsLiver NeoplasmsAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsHumansOrganoplatinum CompoundsOrganoplatinum Compounds

Identifiers

PMID29117361

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