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ArticleCureus2018

A Devastatingly "Minor" Relationship Between Male Breast Cancer and Prostate Cancer.

Sindhura Kolli, Armand Asarian, Romulo Genato, Philip Xiao

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Article in Cureus, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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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

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sindhura KolliInternal Medicine, The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Brooklyn, USA.
Armand AsarianSurgery, The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Brooklyn, USA.
Romulo GenatoSurgery, The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Brooklyn, USA.
Philip XiaoPathology, The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Brooklyn, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Certain cancers pave way for other primary cancers to emerge with genetic disturbances serving as a common denominator as demonstrated by our male patient who developed prostate cancer within three months of being diagnosed with breast cancer despite being negative for the major genetic mutations, BRCA1 and BRCA2 and having a negative family history for cancers. Here we examine overlapping major and minor contributing risk factors and the limitations of the most current screening guidelines.

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brca1brca2male breast cancernbnpalb2prostate cancer

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PMID30564542
PMCPMC6298615

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