Unexpectedly Low Rate of Metastasis and Death Among Patients Treated for Uveal Melanoma with Brachytherapy, Vitrectomy, and Silicone Oil.

Axel Rivas, Wolfram Samlowski, Tara A McCannel

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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 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Axel RivasKirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), Las Vegas, NV 89102, USA.ORCID 0009-0004-9393-3439

Wolfram SamlowskiKirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), Las Vegas, NV 89102, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0713-914X

Tara A McCannelJules Stein Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

Funding

SOUTHERN NEVADA CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION-CCOPU10CA035421 · NCI · SOUTHERN NEVADA CANCER RESEARCH FDN · PI ELLERTON, JOHN A · 1985 to 2014

$9.8M

NCI NIH HHS U10 CA035421US National Institutes for Health 5U10CA035421

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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brachytherapycytogeneticsgene expression profilingmonosomy 3ocular melanomasilicone oiluveal melanomauveal melanoma metastasisuveal melanoma survivalvitrectomy

Identifiers

PMID40867312

DOI10.3390/cancers17162683

PMCPMC12384185

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