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ArticleEnvironmental health : a global access science source2017

Comments on "Incidence of cancer among licensed commercial pilots flying North Atlantic routes".

S M J Mortazavi

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Article in Environmental health : a global access science source, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 31% 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

0 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

S M J MortazaviDiagnostic Imaging Center, Fox Chase Cancer Center, 333 Cottman Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19111, USA. S.M.Javad.Mortazavi@fccc.edu.
Imaging Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gudmundsdottir et al. in their paper entitled "Incidence of cancer among licensed commercial pilots flying North Atlantic routes" published in Environmental Health have evaluated the effects of exposure to higher levels of cosmic radiation on cancer incidence in the pilots of commercial flights. Despite its remarkable strengths, the paper authored by Gudmundsdottir et al. has some shortcomings. The shortcomings of this paper such as not determining the shape of dose-response relationship for radiation-induced cancers, limitations in flight dose calculations, the weaknesses of CARI-6 as the program used by Gudmundsdottir et al. to estimate the effective dose of galactic cosmic rays, and the problems associated with unpredictable nature of the magnitude and duration of solar particle events are discussed.

Indexed as

Cosmic RadiationNeoplasms, Radiation-InducedPilotsHumansIncidenceOccupational ExposureCancerCommercial flightsCosmic radiationPilots

Identifiers

PMID29149894
PMCPMC5693704
OpenAlexW2768285497

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