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ArticleThorax2020

Gilbert's syndrome, circulating bilirubin and lung cancer: a genetic advantage?

Heinz Freisling, Nazlisadat Seyed Khoei, Vivian Viallon, Karl-Heinz Wagner

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Article in Thorax, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

12 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Sex-specific associations of the bilirubin-to-albumin ratio with lung cancer risk: evidence from Cox regression and causal survival forest analysis.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  5. Factors linked to lung cancer in MIMIC-IV database.Journal of thoracic disease · 2025
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  7. Bilirubin metabolism in relation to cancer.Frontiers in oncology · 2025
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  9. Role of Heme Oxygenase in Gastrointestinal Epithelial Cells.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Heinz FreislingInternational Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France FreislingH@iarc.fr.ORCID 0000-0001-8648-4998
Nazlisadat Seyed KhoeiFaculty of Life Sciences, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna, Wien, Austria.
Vivian ViallonInternational Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France.
Karl-Heinz WagnerFaculty of Life Sciences, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna, Wien, Austria.

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Gilbert DiseaseLung NeoplasmsBilirubinHumansBilirubinlung canceroxidative stress

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