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ArticleJournal of cancer research and clinical oncology2021

Re: Results of a randomized trial of treatment modalities in patients with low or early‑intermediate risk prostate cancer (PREFERE trial).

Andreas Boehle, Frank Kahmann, Thomas Oliver Henkel, Joerg Zimmermann, Stefan Machtens

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In one paragraph

Article in Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Andreas BoehleDepartment of Urology, University of Luebeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, Luebeck, 23562, Germany. boehle@urologie-bad-schwartau.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5138-3190
Frank KahmannMVZ Ihre Urologen GbR, Britzer Damm 63, 12347, Berlin, Germany.
Thomas Oliver HenkelMVZ Ihre Urologen GbR, Britzer Damm 63, 12347, Berlin, Germany.
Joerg ZimmermannPraxiszentrum Alstertal, Heegbarg 2, 22391, Hamburg, Germany.
Stefan MachtensDepartment of Urology, Marien-Krankenhaus, Dr.-Robert-Koch-Straße 18, 51465, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The authors of this "Letter to the Editors" express their major concern about selective and biased reporting in this paper.

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BrachytherapyProstatic NeoplasmsHumansMaleProstatectomy

Identifiers

PMID33507360
PMCPMC7954738

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