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ArticleCancers2025

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Coralie Lefebvre, Hannah Greenspoon, Kayla E Payne, Emily Steinberg, Felicia Tewfik, Gianluca Savoia, Sabrina Daniela da Silva, Marc Pusztaszeri, Véronique-Isabelle Forest, Richard J Payne

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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 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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.

  1. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Coralie LefebvreFaculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2M7, Canada.
Hannah GreenspoonFaculty of Arts and Science, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada.
Kayla E PayneFaculty of Arts, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2M7, Canada.
Emily SteinbergDepartment of Family Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada.ORCID 0009-0009-8421-5781
Felicia TewfikFaculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada.
Gianluca SavoiaFaculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2M7, Canada.ORCID 0009-0004-1728-860X
Sabrina Daniela da SilvaDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3T 1E2, Canada.
Marc PusztaszeriDepartment of Pathology, Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3T 1E2, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-6490-4189
Véronique-Isabelle ForestDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3T 1E2, Canada.
Richard J PayneDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3T 1E2, Canada.

Funding

McGill University McGill Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Research Bursary Program
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BACKGROUND/

objectives

methodsA retrospective chart review was performed on 111 patients with thyroid nodules harboring

resultsThe mean

conclusionsA high

Indexed as

aggressivenessallele frequencymolecular mutationsmolecular testingRAS mutationTERT mutationthyroid cancer

Identifiers

PMID40940948
PMCPMC12427226

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