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GuidelineClinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico2018

SEOM clinical guideline on unknown primary cancer (2017).

F Losa, G Soler, A Casado, A Estival, I Fernández, S Giménez, F Longo, R Pazo-Cid, J Salgado, M Á Seguí

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Guideline in Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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

  1. SEOM-GECOD clinical guideline for cancer of unknown primary (update 2025).Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  13. Nationwide survey on family caregiver-perceived experiences of patients with cancer of unknown primary site.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

F LosaHospital de Sant Joan Despí Moisés Broggi, Sant Joan Despí, Barcelona, Spain. ferran.losa@sanitatintegral.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4355-6626
G SolerHospital Durán i Reynals (ICO-L'Hospitalet), Barcelona, Spain.
A CasadoHospital Universitario Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain.
A EstivalHospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona, Spain.
I FernándezHospital Alvaro Cunqueiro-Complejo Hospitalario Universitario, Vigo, Spain.
S GiménezHospital Universitari I Politècnic la Fe, Valencia, Spain.
F LongoHospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain.
R Pazo-CidHospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Zaragoza, Spain.
J SalgadoComplejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
M Á SeguíParc Taulí Sabadell, Hospital Universitari, Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer of unknown primary site is a histologically confirmed cancer that manifests in advanced stage, with no identifiable primary site following standard diagnostic procedures. Patients are initially categorized based on the findings of the initial biopsy: adenocarcinoma, squamous-cell carcinoma, neuroendocrine carcinoma, and poorly differentiated carcinoma. Appropriate patient management requires understanding several clinical and pathological features that aid in identifying several subsets of patients with more responsive tumors.

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HumansNeoplasms, Unknown PrimaryCancerChemotherapyDiagnosis and treatmentUnknown primary site

Identifiers

PMID29230692
PMCPMC5785607

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