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Trial reportNutrients2025

Beyond Analgesia: Psychobiotics as an Adjunctive Approach to Pain Management in Gastrointestinal Oncology-A

Georgios Tzikos, Alexandra-Eleftheria Menni, Helen Theodorou, Eleni Chamalidou, Ioannis M Theodorou, George Stavrou, Anne D Shrewsbury, Aikaterini Amaniti, Anastasia Konsta, Joulia K Tsetis and 2 more

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In one paragraph

Trial report in Nutrients, 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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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing 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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Article
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

12 authors.

Georgios TzikosDepartment of Surgery, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-1095-8709
Alexandra-Eleftheria MenniDepartment of Surgery, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Helen TheodorouDepartment of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, University of Crete, 74100 Rethymno, Greece.
Eleni ChamalidouOutpatient Surgical Oncology Unit, Chemotherapy Department, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Ioannis M TheodorouHellenic Institute for the Study of Sepsis (HISS), 11528 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0009-0006-3526-194X
George StavrouDepartment of Surgery, 417 NIMTS (Army Share Fund Hospital), 11521 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-5948-8037
Anne D ShrewsburyDepartment of Surgery, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Aikaterini AmanitiDepartment of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Anastasia KonstaFirst Department of Psychiatry, "Papageorgiou" General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Joulia K TsetisUni-Pharma S.A., 14564 Athens, Greece.
Vasileios GrosomanidisDepartment of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Katerina KotzampassiDepartment of Surgery, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-0241-7216

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Cancer PainGastrointestinal NeoplasmsPain ManagementProbioticsAdultAgedAnalgesiaFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPain MeasurementPain PerceptionTreatment Outcomeadjunctive therapycancer painchemotherapygastrointestinal cancergut–brain axisMcGill Pain Questionnairenon-opioid analgesiapost hoc analysispsychobiotics

Identifiers

PMID40944142
PMCPMC12430046

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