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ArticleStrahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al]2025

De-escalation strategies in early breast cancer: implications of sentinel lymph node biopsy omission for adjuvant radiotherapy.

K J Borm, J Hörner-Rieber, N M Duma, W Budach, M D Piroth, D Krug, Breast Cancer Expert Panel of the German Society of Radiation Oncology DEGRO

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Article in Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al], 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

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

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

  1. DEGRO practical guidelines: radiotherapy of breast cancer-regional nodal irradiation.Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

K J BormTUM School of Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology, Technical University of Munich, Ismaningerstraße 22, 81675, Munich, Germany. kai.borm@mri.tum.de.
J Hörner-RieberDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
N M DumaDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Helios Clinics of Schwerin-University Campus of MSH Medical School Hamburg, Schwerin, Germany.
W BudachDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
M D PirothDepartment of Radiation Oncology, HELIOS University Hospital Wuppertal, Witten/Herdecke University, Heusnerstraße 40, 42283, Wuppertal, Germany.
D KrugDepartment of Radiotherapy and Radiation Oncology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Breast Cancer Expert Panel of the German Society of Radiation Oncology DEGRO

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID40237818
PMCPMC12119702

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