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Trial reportBritish journal of cancer2001

Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor alone or with dacarbazine in metastatic melanoma: a randomized phase II trial.

A Ravaud, M Delaunay, C Chevreau, V Coulon, M Debled, C Bret-Dibat, F Courbon, N Gualde, B Nguyen Bui

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In one paragraph

Trial report in British journal of cancer, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 48% of its field
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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

A RavaudDepartment of Medicine, Institut Bergonié, Regional Cancer Center, Bordeaux, France.
M Delaunay
C Chevreau
V Coulon
M Debled
C Bret-Dibat
F Courbon
N Gualde
B Nguyen Bui
Institut Bergonié · FRHôpital Saint-André · FRInstitut Claudius Regaud · FRCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRUniversité de Bordeaux · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The potential antitumoral effect of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) led us to evaluate GM-CSF alone or with dacarbazine (DTIC) in metastatic melanoma in first line randomized phase II. Treatment was arm A: GM-CSF: 5 microg kg(-1), bid, 14 consecutive days every 21 days and arm B: GM-CSF: 5 microg kg(-1), bid, day 2 to day 19 every 21 days and DTIC: 800 mg m(-2), day 1 of each cycle. 32 patients (pts) were included, 15 pts in arm A and 17 in arm B. All pts had visceral metastatic sites. 9 had only one metastatic site. The median number of cycles given was 2 in arm A and 3 in arm B. 100% and 89.4% of the planned dose of GM-CSF was given in arm A and arm B respectively. No objective response was obtained. 19 pts experienced at least WHO grade 3 toxicity. All pts had fever, 29 had a decrease in performance status and 23 had pain. Grade 3 toxicity were fever (38.7%), decrease in performance status (32.3%), pain (19.4%) and dyspnoea (12.5%). In this study, GM-CSF alone or in association with DTIC did not induce any antitumoral activity with subsequent toxicity.

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AdultAgedAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsDacarbazineFemaleGranulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating FactorHumansMaleMelanomaMiddle AgedSurvival AnalysisTreatment OutcomeDacarbazineGranulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor

Identifiers

PMID11720430
PMCPMC2363949
OpenAlexW160709359

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