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ReviewJournal of thoracic disease2019

Surgery and stereotactic body radiotherapy for early stage non-small cell lung cancer: review of meta-analyses.

Masatsugu Hamaji, Yukinori Matsuo, Toyofumi Fengshi Chen-Yoshikawa, Takashi Mizowaki, Hiroshi Date

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Review in Journal of thoracic disease, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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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

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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Masatsugu HamajiDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan.
Yukinori MatsuoDepartment of Radiation Oncology and Image-Applied Therapy, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan.
Toyofumi Fengshi Chen-YoshikawaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan.
Takashi MizowakiDepartment of Radiation Oncology and Image-Applied Therapy, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan.
Hiroshi DateDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Observational or randomized studies on survival outcome following surgery versus stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) demonstrated various results, and several meta-analyses on this topic have been published. The PubMed database was queried for meta-analyses comparing surgery and SBRT for early stage NSCLC. Six meta-analyses on this comparison were identified and 4 (66.7%) suggested that surgery be associated with significantly more favorable overall survival than SBRT, using odds ratio or hazard ratio (HR) as measures of effect. Most of the included studies in the meta-analyses were observational studies and those meta-analyses should be interpreted with caution.

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lung cancerstereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT)Surgerysurvival

Identifiers

PMID31516737
PMCPMC6706618

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