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ArticleF1000Research2018

Factors influencing malignant mesothelioma survival: a retrospective review of the National Mesothelioma Virtual Bank cohort.

Waqas Amin, Faina Linkov, Douglas P Landsittel, Jonathan C Silverstein, Wiam Bashara, Carmelo Gaudioso, Michael D Feldman, Harvey I Pass, Jonathan Melamed, Joseph S Friedberg and 1 more

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Article in F1000Research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32citing papers in PubMed
5.1field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

32 citing papers in PubMed, 50 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

11 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Waqas AminBiomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1250-7696
Faina LinkovObstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science,, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3707-0104
Douglas P LandsittelBiomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, USA.
Jonathan C SilversteinBiomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9252-6039
Wiam BasharaDepartment of Pathology and Lab. Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, 14263, USA.
Carmelo GaudiosoDepartment of Pathology and Lab. Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, 14263, USA.
Michael D FeldmanDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
Harvey I PassDepartment of Surgery, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY, 10016, USA.
Jonathan MelamedDepartment of Pathology, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY, 10016, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2844-7990
Joseph S FriedbergDepartment of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA.
Michael J BecichBiomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, USA.
University of Pittsburgh · USNYU Langone Health · USRoswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center · USHospital of the University of Pennsylvania · USUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore · US

Funding

Sustaining the Expansion of the National Mesothelioma Virtual Bank (NMVB)U24OH009077 · OH · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI BECICH, MICHAEL JOHN, DACIC, SANJA · 2008 to 2025
$18.0M
ACL HHS U24OH009077NIOSH CDC HHS U24 OH009077
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

MesotheliomaPleural NeoplasmsFemaleHumansLung NeoplasmsMaleMiddle AgedPrognosisRetrospective StudiesBiobankingMesotheliomaRisk factorSurvival analysis. Cox hazard regression analysis

Identifiers

PMID30410729
PMCPMC6198263
OpenAlexW2885778939

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