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ReviewOncology letters2019

Anaplastic lymphoma kinase fusions: Roles in cancer and therapeutic perspectives.

Zhifa Cao, Qian Gao, Meixian Fu, Nan Ni, Yuting Pei, Wen-Bin Ou

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In one paragraph

Review in Oncology letters, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
42citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

42 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 55 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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zhifa CaoZhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Silkworm Bioreactors and Biomedicine, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, P.R. China.
Qian GaoEmergency Department, Tianjin Fourth Central Hospital, Fourth Central Hospital Affiliated with Nankai University, Tianjin 300140, P.R. China.
Meixian FuZhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Silkworm Bioreactors and Biomedicine, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, P.R. China.
Nan NiZhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Silkworm Bioreactors and Biomedicine, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, P.R. China.
Yuting PeiZhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Silkworm Bioreactors and Biomedicine, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, P.R. China.
Wen-Bin OuZhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Silkworm Bioreactors and Biomedicine, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, P.R. China.
Zhejiang Sci-Tech University · CNTianjin Fourth Central Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) serves a crucial role in brain development.

Indexed as

anaplastic lymphoma kinasefusion variantsoncogeneresistance mechanismstargeted therapy

Identifiers

PMID30675269
PMCPMC6341817
OpenAlexW2904760494

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