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Cancer care during the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Italy: young oncologists' perspective.

Matteo Lambertini, Angela Toss, Antonio Passaro, Carmen Criscitiello, Chiara Cremolini, Claudia Cardone, Fotios Loupakis, Giuseppe Viscardi, Icro Meattini, Maria Vittoria Dieci and 3 more

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Article in ESMO open, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 110 papers, 6 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

110 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  9. The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on cancer patients' health and healthcare: findings from a cross-sectional survey on more than 3000 patients.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Matteo LambertiniDepartment of Medical Oncology, U.O.C. Clinica di Oncologia Medica, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova, Italy matteo.lambertini@unige.it.ORCID 0000-0003-1797-5296
Angela TossDepartment of Oncology and Hematology, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Modena, Modena, Italy.
Antonio PassaroDivision of Thoracic Oncology, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy.
Carmen CriscitielloNew Drugs and Early Drug Development for Innovative Therapies Division, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy.
Chiara CremoliniDepartment of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Claudia CardoneClinical Trials Unit, Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori 'Fondazione Giovanni Pascale' - IRCCS, Naples, Italy.
Fotios LoupakisDepartment of Oncology, Unit of Oncology 1, Oncologic Institute of Veneto IRCCS, Italy.
Giuseppe ViscardiDepartment of Precision Medicine, Università degli Studi della Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli', Naples, Italy.
Icro MeattiniDepartment of Experimental and Clinical Biomedical Sciences 'M. Serio', University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Maria Vittoria DieciMedical Oncology 2, Veneto Institute of Oncology IOV-IRCCS, Padova, Italy.
Roberto FerraraDepartment of Medical Oncology, Thoracic Oncology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy.
Raffaele GiustiMedical Oncology Unit, Sant'Andrea Hospital of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Massimo Di MaioDepartment of Oncology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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CoronavirusOncologistsSevere acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirusBetacoronavirusChinaCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansItalyPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2editorial

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PMID32229501
PMCPMC7174009

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