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ArticleThe Lancet. Oncology2022

African culture, traditional medicine, and cancer care.

Peter Bai James, John Baptist Asiimwe, Jon Wardle, Amos Deogratius Mwaka, Ossy Muganga Julius Kasilo

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Article in The Lancet. Oncology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5citing 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. The Impact of Travel Distance on Cancer Stage at Diagnosis for Cancer: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Peter Bai JamesNational Centre for Naturopathic Medicine, Faculty of Health, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia; Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Electronic address: peter.james@scu.edu.au.
John Baptist AsiimweDepartment of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda; School of Nursing and Midwifery, Uganda Campus, Aga Khan University, Kampala, Uganda; Faculty of Nursing and Health sciences, Bishop Stuart University, Mbarara, Uganda.
Jon WardleNational Centre for Naturopathic Medicine, Faculty of Health, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia.
Amos Deogratius MwakaDepartment of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Gulu University, Gulu, Uganda.
Ossy Muganga Julius KasiloWHO Regional Office for Africa, Universal Health Coverage Life Course Cluster, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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NeoplasmsBlack PeopleHumansMedicine, Traditional

Identifiers

PMID35550271

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