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ReviewGut microbes2020

Therapeutic methods of gut microbiota modification in colorectal cancer management - fecal microbiota transplantation, prebiotics, probiotics, and synbiotics.

Karolina Kaźmierczak-Siedlecka, Agnieszka Daca, Mateusz Fic, Thierry van de Wetering, Marcin Folwarski, Wojciech Makarewicz

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In one paragraph

Review in Gut microbes, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 109 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
109citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
7.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

109 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 182 citations in OpenAlex.

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49 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Karolina Kaźmierczak-SiedleckaDepartment of Surgical Oncology, Medical University of Gdansk , Gdańsk, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-0283-1436
Agnieszka DacaDepartment of Pathology and Experimental Rheumatology, Medical University of Gdansk , Gdańsk, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-1485-3090
Mateusz FicDepartment of Clinical and Molecular Biochemistry, Pomeranian Medical University Szczecin , Szczecin, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-1974-2501
Thierry van de WeteringDepartment of Medical Laboratory Diagnostics - Biobank, Medical University of Gdansk , Gdańsk, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-3910-649X
Marcin FolwarskiDepartment of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, Medical University of Gdansk , Gdańsk, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-7301-1689
Wojciech MakarewiczDepartment of Surgical Oncology, Medical University of Gdansk , Gdańsk, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-9445-2969
Gdańsk Medical University · PLPomeranian Medical University · PL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The link between gut microbiota and the development of colorectal cancer has been investigated. An imbalance in the gut microbiota promotes the progress of colorectal carcinogenesis

Indexed as

Fecal Microbiota TransplantationGastrointestinal MicrobiomeAnimalsColorectal NeoplasmsCombined Modality TherapyHumansPrebioticsProbioticsSynbioticsPrebioticsClostridium difficile infectioncolorectal cancerFecal microbiota transplantationprebioticsprobioticssynbiotics

Identifiers

PMID32453670
PMCPMC7524363
OpenAlexW3029944142

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Registered trials

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