Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29558443›Full record

ReviewCancers2018

The Complex Interplay between Chronic Inflammation, the Microbiome, and Cancer: Understanding Disease Progression and What We Can Do to Prevent It.

Heather Armstrong, Michael Bording-Jorgensen, Stephanie Dijk, Eytan Wine

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In one paragraph

Review in Cancers, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
57citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
10.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

57 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 114 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 1 institution in 1 country.

Heather ArmstrongCEGIIR, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2X8, Canada. harmstro@ualberta.ca.ORCID 0000-0003-3991-9201
Michael Bording-JorgensenCEGIIR, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2X8, Canada. bordingj@ualberta.ca.
Stephanie DijkCEGIIR, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2X8, Canada. sispragu@ualberta.ca.
Eytan WineCEGIIR, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2X8, Canada. wine@ualberta.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-3458-4142
University of Alberta · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer is a multifaceted condition, in which a senescent cell begins dividing in an irregular manner due to various factors such as DNA damage, growth factors and inflammation. Inflammation is not typically discussed as carcinogenic; however, a significant percentage of cancers arise from chronic microbial infections and damage brought on by chronic inflammation. A hallmark cancer-inducing microbe is

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cancerdietinflammationmicrobiota

Identifiers

PMID29558443
PMCPMC5876658
OpenAlexW2792730212

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Registered trials

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