Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29323648›Full record

ArticleLancet (London, England)2018

Targeted radiotherapy for early breast cancer.

Jayant S Vaidya, Max Bulsara, Frederik Wenz, Jeffrey S Tobias, David Joseph, Michael Baum

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In one paragraph

Article in Lancet (London, England), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 36% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Trial
  2. The evolution of targeted intra operative radiotherapy in early breast cancer.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2025
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  4. Particle radiotherapy for breast cancer.Frontiers in oncology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Jayant S VaidyaDivision of Surgery and Interventional Science, University College London, London W1W 7EJ, UK. Electronic address: jayant.vaidya@ucl.ac.uk.
Max BulsaraDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, WA, Australia.
Frederik WenzDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Centre Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany.
Jeffrey S TobiasDepartment of Clinical Oncology, University College London Hospitals, London, UK.
David JosephDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, WA, Australia.
Michael BaumDivision of Surgery and Interventional Science, University College London, London W1W 7EJ, UK.
University College London · GBSir Charles Gairdner Hospital · AUThe University of Notre Dame Australia · AUUniversity Medical Centre Mannheim · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Mastectomy, SegmentalBreast NeoplasmsHumansRadiotherapyRadiotherapy, Adjuvant

Identifiers

PMID29323648
OpenAlexW2781873037

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.