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ArticleFrontiers in nutrition2021

Kampo Medicine Treatment for Advanced Pancreatic Cancer: A Case Series.

Masayuki Shimizu, Shin Takayama, Akiko Kikuchi, Ryutaro Arita, Rie Ono, Kota Ishizawa, Tadashi Ishii

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Article in Frontiers in nutrition, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8citing 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

8 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

7 authors.

Masayuki ShimizuShimizu Clinic, Sendai, Japan.
Shin TakayamaDepartment of Kampo Medicine, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, Japan.
Akiko KikuchiDepartment of Kampo Medicine, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, Japan.
Ryutaro AritaDepartment of Kampo Medicine, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, Japan.
Rie OnoDepartment of Kampo Medicine, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, Japan.
Kota IshizawaDepartment of Education and Support for Regional Medicine, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, Japan.
Tadashi IshiiDepartment of Kampo Medicine, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

integrative therapyKampo medicinepancreatic cancerprolong survivalquality of life

Identifiers

PMID34458306
PMCPMC8387656

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