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ArticleCancer2020

Why many oncologists fail to share accurate prognoses: They care deeply for their patients.

Eli Rowe Abernethy, Gavin Paul Campbell, Rebecca D Pentz

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Article in Cancer, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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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

13 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Beyond theJCO precision oncology · 2026
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  6. Analysis of preferences and responses to recall in adolescent and young adult head and neck cancer survivors treated with radiotherapy.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025
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  7. LCD benchmark: long clinical document benchmark on mortality prediction for language models.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Eli Rowe AbernethyWinship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Gavin Paul CampbellWinship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Rebecca D PentzDepartment of Hematology and Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.ORCID 0000-0003-4338-6663

Funding

Winship Cancer Institute Cancer Center Support GrantP30CA138292 · NCI · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI Suresh S Ramalingam · 2009 to 2026
$47.5M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA138292
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

CommunicationEmpathyPrognosisTruth DisclosureHumansNeoplasmsOncologistsPaternalismPatient Preferenceclinician prediction of survival (CPS)oncologypaternalismpatient preference toolsphysician-patient relationshipprognosisprognostic tools

Identifiers

PMID31774548
PMCPMC7050325

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