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. 2010 Jan 20;2010(1):CD008285. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD008285

Thomas 1998a.

Methods RCT
1987 to 1995
Participants 116 women
Stage IB (>5cm) to IVA
Interventions Radiotherapy versus concomitant chemoradiotherapy (5‐FU)
Outcomes Survival, disease‐free survival, local and distant recurrence, acute toxicity, late toxicity
Notes 4‐arm trial with Thomas (b)
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Low risk Data checks on IPD provided suggest adequate sequence generation
Blinding (performance bias and detection bias) 
 All outcomes High risk Trial was not blinded due to nature of treatment interventions
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk IPD provided for all outcomes. NB. Substantial proportion of data missing for late toxicity outcomes
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Low risk N/A (IPD supplied for all outcomes)
Other bias Low risk Data checks on IPD provided suggest study is free of follow‐up bias