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ArticleCancer management and research2019

Chromogranin A is a predictor of prognosis in patients with prostate cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Zhenlang Guo, Yuliang Wang, Songtao Xiang, Shusheng Wang, Franky Leung Chan

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Article in Cancer management and research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 19% 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 11 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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Zhenlang GuoThe Second Clinical College, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.
Yuliang WangSchool of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.
Songtao XiangDepartment of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.
Shusheng WangDepartment of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.
Franky Leung ChanSchool of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.
Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine · CNChinese University of Hong Kong · HK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

chromogranin-Ameta-analysisprognosisprostate cancersurvival

Identifiers

PMID31114331
PMCPMC6497897
OpenAlexW2926271843

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