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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2025

Treatment Outcomes in Patients Receiving Carbon-Ion Radiotherapy Versus Hepatectomy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma (≥4 cm): A Retrospective Study in Japan.

Keita Maki, Hiroaki Haga, Tomohiro Katsumi, Kyoko Hoshikawa, Takashi Kaneko, Ryosuke Takahashi, Shuichiro Sugawara, Masashi Koto, Fuyuhiko Motoi, Yoshiyuki Ueno

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Keita MakiDepartment of Gastroenterology, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata 990-9585, Japan.ORCID 0009-0003-2035-1940
Hiroaki HagaDepartment of Gastroenterology, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata 990-9585, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-9355-1837
Tomohiro KatsumiDepartment of Gastroenterology, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata 990-9585, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-5670-7505
Kyoko HoshikawaDepartment of Gastroenterology, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata 990-9585, Japan.
Takashi KanekoDepartment of Radiology, Division of Radiation Oncology, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata 990-9585, Japan.
Ryosuke TakahashiDepartment of Surgery I, Yamagata University Graduate School of Medical Science, Yamagata 990-9585, Japan.
Shuichiro SugawaraDepartment of Surgery I, Yamagata University Graduate School of Medical Science, Yamagata 990-9585, Japan.
Masashi KotoDepartment of Radiology, Division of Radiation Oncology, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata 990-9585, Japan.
Fuyuhiko MotoiDepartment of Surgery I, Yamagata University Graduate School of Medical Science, Yamagata 990-9585, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-7601-8395
Yoshiyuki UenoDepartment of Gastroenterology, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata 990-9585, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-5623-4250

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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carbon-ion radiotherapyhepatectomyhepatocellular carcinomaintrahepatic distant control ratelocal control rate

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PMID40869506
PMCPMC12386234

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