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ArticleJournal of thoracic disease2025

Novel neoadjuvant immunotherapy treatment and surveillance strategies in resectable esophageal cancer: innovation leads to improved outcomes.

Kenneth M Williams, Kian C Banks, Jeffrey B Velotta

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Article in Journal of thoracic disease, 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

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Kenneth M WilliamsDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7180-8246
Kian C BanksDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA.
Jeffrey B VelottaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA.

Funding

Mentored Research Training in Aging and Surgery (MERITAS)R38AG085422 · NIA · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI Zara R Cooper, Louis Loc Nguyen · 2024 to 2026
$1.0M
NIA NIH HHS R38 AG085422
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA)esophageal cancerneoadjuvant treatmentphase 1b trialThoracic surgery

Identifiers

PMID40400970
PMCPMC12090161

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