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ArticleOncotarget2017

The anti-cancer effects and mechanisms of

Chin-Chuan Chen, Chun-Pin Kao, Mei-Miao Chiu, Shu-Huei Wang

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Article in Oncotarget, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. The logarithmic phase as a therapeutic direction: evaluating pharmacological strategies against cancer progression.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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  8. Ethnobotanical Survey on Bitter Tea in Taiwan.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022
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  10. Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles from aqueous extract ofSaudi journal of biological sciences · 2021
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  11. Viruses · 2021
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  12. Investigating the Mechanism ofEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2021
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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

4 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Chin-Chuan ChenGraduate Institute of Natural Products, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Chinese Herbal Medicine Research Team, Healthy Aging Research Center, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Chun-Pin KaoDepartment of Nursing, Hsin Sheng Junior College of Medical Care and Management, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Mei-Miao ChiuDepartment of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, New Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.
Shu-Huei WangDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital · TWHsin Sheng College of Medical Care and Management · TWMackay Medical College · TWNational Taiwan University · TW

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lung cancer, with a poor prognosis and resistance to chemotherapy, is the most common malignant tumor and has the highest mortality rate worldwide.

Indexed as

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Identifiers

PMID29312612
PMCPMC5752525
OpenAlexW2769019821

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