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ArticleThe journal of evidence-based dental practice2020

Duration of Cigarette Smoking Is a Stronger Risk Factor Than Number of Cigarettes Smoked per Day for Head and Neck Cancer, and Quitting Dramatically Lowers the Risk.

Scott L Tomar

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Article in The journal of evidence-based dental practice, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 42% of its field
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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Scott L Tomar

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

article title and bibliographic informationJoint effects of intensity and duration of cigarette smoking on the risk of head and neck cancer: a bivariate spline model approach. Di Credico G, Edefonti V, Polesel J et al. Oral Oncol 2019;94:47-57. SOURCE OF

fundingThe 33 case-control studies whose data were pooled for this project were supported by a large number of governmental and foundation sources in the United States, Italy, Germany, Japan, Brazil, and Spain, as well as the World Cancer Research Fund, International Union Against Cancer, and the European Commission. No funding source was reported for the current analysis. TYPE OF STUDY/

designSecondary analysis of pooled data from 33 case-control studies.

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Cigarette SmokingHead and Neck NeoplasmsTobacco ProductsBrazilHumansJapanRisk FactorsSmokeSmokingUnited StatesSmokeCigarette smokingHead and neck neoplasmsLaryngeal neoplasmsMouth neoplasmsPharyngeal neoplasmsStatistical models

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PMID32381417
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