Is Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study (COMS) still relevant?

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.

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.

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Threshold analysis of mortality outcomes in the collaborative ocular melanoma study (COMS).Melanoma management · 2025
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2. The Effects of Oncological Treatment on Redox Balance in Patients with Uveal Melanoma.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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3. Choroidal Melanoma: A Case Series From Malaysia.Cureus · 2022
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4. Feasibility, Method and Early Outcome of Image-Guided Volumetric Modulated Arc Radiosurgery Followed by Resection for AJCC Stage IIA-IIIB High-Risk Large Intraocular Melanoma.Cancers · 2022
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5. Prognostic Biomarkers in Uveal Melanoma: The Status Quo, Recent Advances and Future Directions.Cancers · 2021
   Review
6. Ultrasound Biomicroscopy Documented Anterior Uveal Melanoma Regression after Ruthenium-106 Plaque Therapy.Ocular oncology and pathology · 2021
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7. Current molecular and clinical insights into uveal melanoma (Review).International journal of oncology · 2021
   Review
8. Malignant choroidal melanoma with vitreous seeds: supported by histopathology and field emission scanning electron microscopy study.Romanian journal of ophthalmology
   Article
9. Surgical treatment of uveal melanoma: Exoresection versus endoresection.Taiwan journal of ophthalmology
   Review

Corrections and comments

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  Mortality after deferral of treatment or no treatment for choroidal melanoma.2018

Authors and funding

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Funding

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Abstract

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