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ArticleJCO oncology practice2021

Breast Cancer Prevention: Time for Change.

Rowan T Chlebowski, Aaron K Aragaki, Kathy Pan

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Article in JCO oncology practice, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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16citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. A Co-clinical Trial of Exercise Therapy in Breast Cancer Prevention.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Rowan T ChlebowskiLundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA.ORCID 0000-0002-4212-6184
Aaron K AragakiFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA.
Kathy PanLundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA.ORCID 0000-0003-3546-2566
UCLA Medical Center · USFred Hutch Cancer Center · US

Funding

Transdisciplinary Research in Energetics and Cancer (TREC) Training GrantR25CA203650 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI IRWIN, MELINDA L · 2016 to 2025
$2.9M
WOMENS HEALTH INITIATIVE-N01WH22110N01WH022110 · WH · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI ROSS, PRENTICE · 1992 to 2006
$1.2M
NCI NIH HHS R25 CA203650WHI NIH HHS N01 WH022110
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Agency breast cancer prevention guidelines for other than hereditary cancers have not materially changed in 20 years; endocrine-targeted agents (then, tamoxifen; now, adding raloxifene and aromatase inhibitors) reduce good prognosis estrogen receptor (ER)-positive, progesterone receptor (PR)-positive cancers without reducing deaths from breast cancer. Across three tamoxifen placebo-controlled prevention trials (N = 23,360) begun almost 30 years ago, although there were 226 fewer breast cancer cases, there were nine more deaths from breast cancer in the tamoxifen groups. Following clinical advances, currently more than half of breast cancer cases are solved problems with extremely low risk of death. As endocrine-targeted agents commonly prevent these cancers, widespread implementation of current prevention strategies may not reduce deaths from breast cancer. Compared with other breast cancers, ER-positive, PR-negative cancers and triple-negative cancers have inferior survival (90.6%

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Antineoplastic AgentsBreast NeoplasmsAromatase InhibitorsFemaleHumansRaloxifene HydrochlorideTamoxifenAntineoplastic AgentsAromatase InhibitorsRaloxifene HydrochlorideTamoxifen

Identifiers

PMID34319769
PMCPMC8677965
OpenAlexW3186111542

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