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ArticleCancers2025

Soluble PD-L1 and Serum Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-B May Independently Predict Prognosis in Patients with Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Treated with Pembrolizumab.

Eleni Kokkotou, Dimitra Grapsa, Anna Papadopoulou, Stylianos Gaitanakis, Petros Bakakos, Garyfallia Poulakou, Paraskevi Moutsatsou, Konstantinos Syrigos

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Article in Cancers, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Eleni KokkotouOncology Unit, 3rd Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0009-0000-8067-3042
Dimitra GrapsaOncology Unit, 3rd Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Anna PapadopoulouLaboratory of Clinical Biochemistry, "Attikon" University General Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Stylianos GaitanakisOncology Unit, 3rd Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-8468-5024
Petros Bakakos1st Respiratory Medicine Department, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-9256-9656
Garyfallia PoulakouOncology Unit, 3rd Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Paraskevi MoutsatsouLaboratory of Clinical Biochemistry, "Attikon" University General Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-9549-2295
Konstantinos SyrigosOncology Unit, 3rd Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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immune checkpoint inhibitorsnon-small cell lung cancersPD-1sPD-L1VEGF-AVEGF-B

Identifiers

PMID39941790
PMCPMC11816055

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