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ArticleThe Lancet. Oncology2025

Carcinogenicity of hepatitis D virus, human cytomegalovirus, and Merkel cell polyomavirus.

Margaret R Karagas, John Kaldor, Martin Michaelis, Mazvita M Muchengeti, Dulce Alfaiate, Ilona Argirion, Xiaohua Chen, Celso Cunha, Sébastien Hantz, Virve Koljonen and 24 more

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Article in The Lancet. Oncology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing 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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  12. The immunomodulatory role of human cytomegalovirus in cancer in the era of checkpoint immunotherapy.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  13. Does human cytomegalovirus provide a novel therapeutic target for patients with glioblastoma?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

34 authors.

Margaret R Karagas
John Kaldor
Martin Michaelis
Mazvita M Muchengeti
Dulce Alfaiate
Ilona Argirion
Xiaohua Chen
Celso Cunha
Sébastien Hantz
Virve Koljonen
Hélène C Laude
Weng-Onn Lui
Michael M Nevels
Thomas R O'Brien
Michael E Scheurer
Antoine Touze
Joseph L Wiemels
Lamia Benbrahim-Tallaa
Aline de Conti
Caterina Facchin
Federica Madia
Elisa Pasqual
Roland Wedekind
Inmaculada Aguilera-Buenosvinos
Gary Clifford
Xiaobei Deng
Rachmad A Dongoran
Sarra Ezzemni
Yue Huang
Eero Suonio
Yue Zhai
Heidi Mattock
Mary K Schubauer-Berigan
Andrew T Kunzmann

Funding

IARC Monographs on the Identification of Carcinogenic Hazards to HumansR01CA033193 · NCI · INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RES ON CANCER · PI SCHUBAUER-BERIGAN, MARY K. · 2021 to 2025
$4.9M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA033193
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Identifiers

PMID40587985
PMCPMC12281636

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