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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2024

Illness trajectories of incurable solid cancers.

Eric C T Geijteman, Evelien J M Kuip, Jannie Oskam, Diana Lees, Eduardo Bruera

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Eric C T GeijtemanDepartment of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Evelien J M KuipDepartment of Medical Oncology and Department of Anesthesiology, Pain and Palliative Care, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Jannie OskamPatient author, The Netherlands.
Diana LeesDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Liverpool University Foundation Teaching Hospital, United Kingdom.
Eduardo BrueraDepartment of Palliative Rehabilitation and Integrative Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Identifiers

PMID38428972
PMCPMC10905388

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