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SynthesisAnnals of medicine

Salivary biomarkers for cancer diagnosis: a meta-analysis.

Óscar Rapado-González, Cristina Martínez-Reglero, Ángel Salgado-Barreira, Bahi Takkouche, Rafael López-López, María Mercedes Suárez-Cunqueiro, Laura Muinelo-Romay

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Synthesis in Annals of medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 4 of them syntheses that 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

45 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Óscar Rapado-GonzálezDepartment of Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties, Medicine and Dentistry School, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Cristina Martínez-RegleroMethodology and Statistics Unit, Galicia Sur Health Research Institute (IISGS), Vigo, Spain.
Ángel Salgado-BarreiraMethodology and Statistics Unit, Galicia Sur Health Research Institute (IISGS), Vigo, Spain.
Bahi TakkoucheDepartment of Preventive Medicine, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Rafael López-LópezCentro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
María Mercedes Suárez-CunqueiroDepartment of Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties, Medicine and Dentistry School, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-7774-0643
Laura Muinelo-RomayLiquid Biopsy Analysis Unit, Translational Medical Oncology (Oncomet), Health Research Institute of Santiago (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Biomarkers, TumorBiopsyHumansNeoplasmsROC CurveSalivaBiomarkers, Tumorcancerdiagnosisliquid biopsymeta-analysisSalivasalivaomicssalivary biomarkers

Identifiers

PMID32056455
PMCPMC7877992

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