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ReviewCancers2019

Review and Comparison of Cancer Biomarker Trends in Urine as a Basis for New Diagnostic Pathways.

Carmen Bax, Beatrice Julia Lotesoriere, Selena Sironi, Laura Capelli

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Review in Cancers, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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33citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  2. Accuracy of a new electronic nose for prostate cancer diagnosis in urine samples.International journal of urology : official journal of the Japanese Urological Association · 2022
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  6. [Applications and Advances of Metabolomics in Lung Cancer Research].Zhongguo fei ai za zhi = Chinese journal of lung cancer · 2025
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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

4 authors.

Carmen BaxPolitecnico di Milano, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering "Giulio Natta", piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milan, Italy. carmen.bax@polimi.it.
Beatrice Julia LotesorierePolitecnico di Milano, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering "Giulio Natta", piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milan, Italy.
Selena SironiPolitecnico di Milano, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering "Giulio Natta", piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milan, Italy.
Laura CapelliPolitecnico di Milano, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering "Giulio Natta", piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milan, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer is one of the major causes of mortality worldwide and its already large burden is projected to increase significantly in the near future with a predicted 22 million new cancer cases and 13 million cancer-related deaths occurring annually by 2030. Unfortunately, current procedures for diagnosis are characterized by low diagnostic accuracies. Given the proved correlation between cancer presence and alterations of biological fluid composition, many researchers suggested their characterization to improve cancer detection at early stages. This paper reviews the information that can be found in the scientific literature, regarding the correlation of different cancer forms with the presence of specific metabolites in human urine, in a schematic and easily interpretable form, because of the huge amount of relevant literature. The originality of this paper relies on the attempt to point out the odor properties of such metabolites, and thus to highlight the correlation between urine odor alterations and cancer presence, which is proven by recent literature suggesting the analysis of urine odor for diagnostic purposes. This investigation aims to evaluate the possibility to compare the results of studies based on different approaches to be able in the future to identify those compounds responsible for urine odor alteration.

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cancer diagnosisodor thresholdolfactionurine metabolitesvolatile organic compounds (VOC)volatiles

Identifiers

PMID31450698
PMCPMC6770126

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