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ArticleAnnals of internal medicine2018

Reconciling the Effects of Screening on Prostate Cancer Mortality in the ERSPC and PLCO Trials.

Alex Tsodikov, Roman Gulati, Ruth Etzioni

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Article in Annals of internal medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. Prostate-specific antigen testing and opportunistic prostate cancer screening: a cohort study in England, 1998-2017.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2021
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  6. Correlation of SUVMolecular imaging and radionuclide therapy · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Alex TsodikovUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (A.T.).
Roman GulatiFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington (R.G., R.E.).
Ruth EtzioniFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington (R.G., R.E.).

Funding

Statistical modeling to support population and translational cancer researchR50CA221836 · NCI · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI Roman Gulati · 2017 to 2026
$2.0M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Early Detection of CancerProstatic NeoplasmsHumansMaleMass ScreeningProstate-Specific AntigenResearchProstate-Specific Antigen

Identifiers

PMID29677262

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Registered trials

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