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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine2021

A History of Cancer Research: Carcinogens and Mutagens.

Joseph Lipsick

Open access · bronzeAbstract readHistorical ArticleReview
In one paragraph

Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine, 2021. 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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0cells of the map it votes in
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, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Review
  3. Review
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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Joseph LipsickDepartment of Pathology, Genetics, and Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5324, USA lipsick@stanford.edu.
Stanford University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Observations of the incidence of tumors among chimney sweeps in the eighteenth century and later experiments with coal tars provided early evidence that carcinogens in the environment can promote cancer. Subsequent studies of individuals exposed to radiation, work on fly genetics, and the discovery that DNA was the genetic material led to the idea that these carcinogens act by inducing mutations in DNA that change the behavior of cells and ultimately cause cancer. In this excerpt from his forthcoming book, Joe Lipsick looks back at how the concepts of mutagenesis and carcinogenesis emerged, how these converged with development of the Ames test, and how biochemistry and crystallography ultimately revealed the underlying molecular basis.

Indexed as

CarcinogensMutagensBiomedical ResearchHistory, 18th CenturyHistory, 19th CenturyHistory, 20th CenturyHistory, 21st CenturyHumansMutationNeoplasmsOccupational DiseasesCarcinogensMutagens

Identifiers

PMID33649023
PMCPMC7919401
OpenAlexW3134390666

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Registered trials

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