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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2018

Patterns of Distant Metastasis Between Histological Types in Esophageal Cancer.

San-Gang Wu, Wen-Wen Zhang, Jia-Yuan Sun, Feng-Yan Li, Qin Lin, Zhen-Yu He

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

San-Gang WuDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Xiamen Cancer Hospital, First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.
Wen-Wen ZhangState Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Department of Radiation Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Collaborative Innovation Center of Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China.
Jia-Yuan SunState Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Department of Radiation Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Collaborative Innovation Center of Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China.
Feng-Yan LiState Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Department of Radiation Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Collaborative Innovation Center of Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China.
Qin LinDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Xiamen Cancer Hospital, First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.
Zhen-Yu HeState Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Department of Radiation Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Collaborative Innovation Center of Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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epidemiologyesophageal cancerhistological typemetastasispopulation-based cancer registry

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PMID30135855
PMCPMC6092597

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