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ReviewThe British journal of surgery2020

Maintaining breast cancer care in the face of COVID-19.

C W Q Ng, M Tseng, J S J Lim, C W Chan

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Review in The British journal of surgery, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

4 authors.

C W Q NgDepartment of Surgery, Division of Breast Surgery, National University Health System, Singapore.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2610-0264
M TsengDepartments of Radiation Oncology, National University Cancer Institute of Singapore, National University Health Systems, Singapore.
J S J LimHaematology-Oncology, National University Cancer Institute of Singapore, National University Health Systems, Singapore.
C W ChanDepartment of Surgery, Division of Breast Surgery, National University Health System, Singapore.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The battle of COVID-19 is currently at different levels of intensity in each country and even each city. The authors have prepared succinct recommendations regarding the care of patients with breast cancer, divided into phases that can easily be adapted to each units' needs and resources, and stepped up or stepped down according to escalating and de-escalating circumstances. The structure can also be transposed easily to different cancer types, enabling continued provision of best standards of care despite unprecedented stressors. Surgery must go on.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusDisease ManagementBreast NeoplasmsCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19FemaleHumansLong-Term CarePandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2Telemedicine

Identifiers

PMID32880908
PMCPMC7461076

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