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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2023

Age and sex can predict cancer risk in people referred with breast symptoms.

Toral Gathani, Ramsey Cutress, Kieran Horgan, Cliona Kirwan, Hilary Stobart, Sau Wan Kan, Gillian Reeves, Sian Sweetland

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2023. 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. Pooled it
  2. Sex and gender differences in cancer pathogenesis and pharmacology.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Toral GathaniCancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK toral.gathani@ndph.ox.ac.uk.
Ramsey CutressCancer Sciences, University of Southampton and University Hospitals Southampton, Southampton, UK.
Kieran HorganDepartment of Breast Surgery, St James's Hospital, Leeds, UK.
Cliona KirwanDivision of Cancer Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Hilary StobartIndependent Cancer Patients' Voice, London, UK.
Sau Wan KanCancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Gillian ReevesCancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Sian SweetlandCancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Funding

Cancer Research UK 29186Medical Research Council G0700474Medical Research Council G9900923Medical Research Council MR/K02700X/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Breast NeoplasmsNeoplasmsBreastFemaleHumansRisk

Identifiers

PMID37100445
PMCPMC10142097

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