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ReviewCancers2020

Bitter Melon (

Subhayan Sur, Ratna B Ray

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Cancers, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
31citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

31 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  3. Antiviral Potential ofBiomedicines · 2026
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  4. Beneficial fungal root endophyteFrontiers in microbiology · 2026
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  7. Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
    Review
  8. Evaluation of the impact ofHistology and histopathology · 2025
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  19. Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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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

2 authors.

Subhayan SurDepartment of Pathology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63104, USA.
Ratna B RayDepartment of Pathology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63104, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4477-6292

Funding

Mechanistic Insights of BME mediated inhibition of head and neck cancer growthR01DE025141 · NIDCR · SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY · PI Ratna B. Ray · 2015 to 2026
$4.2M
NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE025141NIH HHS R01 DE024942
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide. Many dietary plant products show promising anticancer effects. Bitter melon or bitter gourd (

Indexed as

bitter melon (Momordica charantia)cancer preventioncancer therapyCucurbitaceaemedicinal plantsignal transduction

Identifiers

PMID32726914
PMCPMC7464160

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