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ArticleJournal of medical radiation sciences2023

Mask-related anxiety and distress during radiation therapy for head and neck cancer.

Haryana M Dhillon, Georgia K B Halkett

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Article in Journal of medical radiation sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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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

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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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Smartphone-based augmented reality patient education in radiation oncology.Technical innovations & patient support in radiation oncology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Haryana M DhillonFaculty of Science, School of Psychology, Psycho-Oncology Cooperative Research Group, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4039-5169
Georgia K B HalkettCurtin School of Nursing/Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI), Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4065-4044

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Some patients experience mask-related anxiety and distress when undergoing radiation therapy for head and neck cancer. Building on the paper by Forbes et al (doi.org/10.1002/jmrs.658) this editorial discusses techniques to implement to improve the patient experience through education and support.

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AnxietyHead and Neck NeoplasmsHumans

Identifiers

PMID37328435
PMCPMC10500115

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