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ArticleCancer management and research2018

Elena Tagliabue, Sara Gandini, Rino Bellocco, Patrick Maisonneuve, Julia Newton-Bishop, David Polsky, DeAnn Lazovich, Peter A Kanetsky, Paola Ghiorzo, Nelleke A Gruis and 8 more

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Article in Cancer management and research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
49citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

49 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 69 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

18 authors at 16 institutions in 7 countries.

Elena TagliabueClinical Trial Center, Scientific Directorate, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori.
Sara GandiniDivision of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
Rino BelloccoDepartment of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Patrick MaisonneuveDivision of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
Julia Newton-BishopSection of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Cancer and Pathology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
David PolskyRonald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology, New York University School of Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY.
DeAnn LazovichDivision of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, MN.
Peter A KanetskyDepartment of Cancer Epidemiology, H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA.
Paola GhiorzoDepartment of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, University of Genoa.
Nelleke A GruisDepartment of Dermatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Maria Teresa LandiDivision of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Chiara MeninImmunology and Molecular Oncology Unit, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IOV-IRCCS, Padua.
Maria Concetta FargnoliDepartment of Dermatology, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy.
Jose Carlos García-BorrónDepartment of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Immunology, University of Murcia.
Jiali HanDepartment of Epidemiology, Richard M Fairbanks School of Public Health, Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Julian LittleSchool of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Francesco SeraDepartment of Social and Environmental Health Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Sara RaimondiDivision of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
European Institute of Oncology · ITFondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori · ITIndiana University Health · USInstituto Murciano de Investigación Biosanitaria · ESIstituto Oncologico Veneto · ITKarolinska Institutet · SELeiden University Medical Center · NLLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine · GBMoffitt Cancer Center · USNational Cancer Institute · USNYU Langone Health · USOspedale Policlinico San Martino · ITUniversity of L'Aquila · ITUniversity of Leeds · GBUniversity of Minnesota · USUniversity of Ottawa · CA

Funding

Cancer Research UK 10589Cancer Research UK 19167
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeMelanoma represents an important public health problem, due to its high case-fatality rate. Identification of individuals at high risk would be of major interest to improve early diagnosis and ultimately survival. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether MATERIALS AND

methodsData were collected within an international collaboration - the M-SKIP project. The present pooled analysis included data on 3,830 single, primary, sporadic, cutaneous melanoma cases and 2,619 controls from seven previously published case-control studies. All the studies had information on

resultsThe presence of any

conclusionThe authors suggest that measuring the

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cutaneous melanomagenetic epidemiologymelanocortin 1 receptorpigmentationpooled analysis

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PMID29795986
PMCPMC5958947
OpenAlexW2791699872

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