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ReviewCancer management and research2019

Prognostic value of tumor-associated macrophages in pancreatic cancer: a meta-analysis.

Min Yu, Renguo Guan, Weifeng Hong, Yu Zhou, Ye Lin, Haosheng Jin, Baohua Hou, Zhixiang Jian

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Review 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 68 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
68citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

68 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 85 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Prognostic biomarkers related to tumoral microenvironment in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: a systematic review.Romanian journal of morphology and embryology = Revue roumaine de morphologie et embryologie
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  12. Macrophage Enhancement of Tumor Cell Extravasation and Intravasation In Vitro.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  14. CAR-Macrophage Cell Therapy: A New Era of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2025
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  19. A glycogen derived from sea urchin-Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025
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8 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Min YuDepartment of General Surgery, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China.
Renguo GuanDepartment of General Surgery, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China.
Weifeng HongDepartment of Medical Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.
Yu ZhouDepartment of General Surgery, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China.
Ye LinDepartment of General Surgery, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China.
Haosheng JinDepartment of General Surgery, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China.
Baohua HouDepartment of General Surgery, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China.
Zhixiang JianDepartment of General Surgery, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China.
Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences · CNGuangdong Provincial People's Hospital · CNFirst Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Pharmaceutical University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

macrophagemeta-analysispancreatic cancerprognostic markerssurvivalsystematic review

Identifiers

PMID31118813
PMCPMC6504556
OpenAlexW2943295145

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