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ArticleChest2025

Practice Patterns and Patient Travel Distances for Lung Cancer Surgery in the United States: Analyses of the Veterans Health Administration and the National Cancer Database.

Steven Tohmasi, Daniel B Eaton, Nikki E Rossetti, Brendan T Heiden, Theodore S Thomas, Martin W Schoen, Ana A Baumann, Su-Hsin Chang, Yan Yan, Mayank R Patel and 4 more

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Article in Chest, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing 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

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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Steven TohmasiDivision of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO. Electronic address: s.tohmasi@wustl.edu.
Daniel B EatonVeterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System, St. Louis, MO.
Nikki E RossettiDivision of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
Brendan T HeidenDivision of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
Theodore S ThomasVeterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System, St. Louis, MO; Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
Martin W SchoenVeterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System, St. Louis, MO; Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
Ana A BaumannDivision of Public Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
Su-Hsin ChangDivision of Public Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
Yan YanDivision of Public Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
Mayank R PatelVeterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System, St. Louis, MO.
Whitney S BrandtDivision of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
Bryan F MeyersDivision of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
Benjamin D KozowerDivision of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
Varun PuriDivision of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System, St. Louis, MO.

Funding

StARR Program in Cross-Disciplinary Oncology Clinician-Scientist TrainingR38CA255575 · NCI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI JOHN A. OLSON · 2023 to 2026
$1.6M
NCI NIH HHS R38 CA255575
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Identifiers

PMID40348360
PMCPMC12597452

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