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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2020

Diet, nutrition, and cancer risk: what do we know and what is the way forward?

Timothy J Key, Kathryn E Bradbury, Aurora Perez-Cornago, Rashmi Sinha, Konstantinos K Tsilidis, Shoichiro Tsugane

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 131 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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131citing papers in PubMed, 4 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

131 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

6 authors.

Timothy J KeyCancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK tim.key@ndph.ox.ac.uk.
Kathryn E BradburyNational Institute for Health Innovation, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Aurora Perez-CornagoCancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Rashmi SinhaMetabolic Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Konstantinos K TsilidisDepartment of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece.
Shoichiro TsuganeCenter for Public Health Sciences, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan.

Funding

Cancer Research UK 19170Cancer Research UK 29017Medical Research Council MR/M012190/1Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Nutritional StatusDietEnergy IntakeHumansNeoplasmsRisk

Identifiers

PMID32139373
PMCPMC7190379

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