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ReviewCancers2022

Oral Contraceptive Use and Breast Cancer Risk According to Molecular Subtypes Status: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Case-Control Studies.

Agnieszka Barańska, Joanna Dolar-Szczasny, Wiesław Kanadys, Wiktoria Kinik, Dorota Ceglarska, Urszula Religioni, Robert Rejdak

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In one paragraph

Review in Cancers, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Agnieszka BarańskaDepartment of Medical Informatics and Statistics with E-Learning Lab, Medical University of Lublin, 20-090 Lublin, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-4864-0184
Joanna Dolar-SzczasnyDepartment of General and Pediatric Ophtalmology, Medical University of Lublin, 20-070 Lublin, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-4206-4371
Wiesław KanadysSpecialistic Medical Center Czechow, 20-848 Lublin, Poland.
Wiktoria KinikScience Popularization Centre, Medical University of Lublin, 20-059 Lublin, Poland.
Dorota CeglarskaSubunit, Primary Health Care Center Provita, 20-093 Lublin, Poland.
Urszula ReligioniSchool of Public Health, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education of Warsaw, 01-813 Warsaw, Poland.
Robert RejdakDepartment of General and Pediatric Ophtalmology, Medical University of Lublin, 20-070 Lublin, Poland.
Medical University of Lublin · PLNarodowy Instytut Zdrowia Publicznego PZH – Państwowy Instytut Badawczy · PL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to investigate the effect of oral contraceptives (OCs) on risk of breast cancer (BrCa) by status of estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2). We searched the MEDLINE (PubMed), Embase and the Cochrane Library database and bibliographies of pertinent articles published up to 2020. Therein, we identified nineteen eligible case-control studies which provided data by breast cancer subtypes: ER-positive (ER+), ER-negative (ER-), HER2-positive (HER2+) and Triplet-negative (TN). Summary risk estimates (pooled OR [pOR]) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated using fixed/random effects models. The summary meta-analysis showed that over-use of OCs led to significant increased risk of TNBrCa (OR = 1.37, 95% CI; 1.13 to 1.67,

Indexed as

breast cancerestrogen receptorhuman epidermal growth factor receptor 2molecular subtypes statusoral contraceptivesprogesterone receptorrisk factors

Identifiers

PMID35158842
PMCPMC8833678
OpenAlexW4212774278

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Registered trials

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