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Trial reportBritish journal of cancer2004

Improved survival in patients with peritoneal metastases from colorectal cancer: a preliminary study.

H Mahteme, J Hansson, A Berglund, L Påhlman, B Glimelius, P Nygren, W Graf

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In one paragraph

Trial report in British journal of cancer, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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40citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.4field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 127 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

H Mahteme1Department of Surgical Sciences, Akademiska Sjukhuset, Uppsala, Sweden. Haile.Mahteme@kirurgi.uu.se
J Hansson
A Berglund
L Påhlman
B Glimelius
P Nygren
W Graf
Uppsala University Hospital · SE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patients with peritoneal or local metastases from colorectal cancer have a poor prognosis. However, aggressive treatments by debulking surgery and infusional intraperitoneal (i.p.) chemotherapy have been tried and appear to benefit selected patients. We assayed the effects of debulking surgery and i.p. chemotherapy with respect to survival and compared the results with matched control patients treated by intravenous (i.v.) chemotherapy. In all, 18 patients with peritoneal and/or local metastases from colorectal adenocarcinoma underwent debulking surgery followed by 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) 550 mg m(-2) day(-1) i.p. and leucovorin (LV) 60 mg m(-2) day(-1) i.v. The chemotherapy was started the day after surgery and was given daily for 6 days and repeated monthly for totally eight courses. The control patients, matched for age, gender, performance status and metastatic site, were randomly selected from controlled clinical chemotherapy trials and treated with i.v. 5-FU+LV or i.v. methotrexate+5-FU+LV. There was no treatment-related mortality. The median survival among i.p. patients was 32 months compared to 14 months in the control group. In all, 11 patients who underwent macroscopically radical surgery had a longer survival than those who were not radically operated (P=0.02). These results indicate that patients with peritoneal metastases and/or locally advanced cancers but without distant metastases may benefit from cytoreductive surgery combined with i.p. chemotherapy.

Indexed as

AdenocarcinomaAdultAgedAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsColorectal NeoplasmsCombined Modality TherapyFemaleFluorouracilHumansInfusions, IntravenousLeucovorinMaleMethotrexateMiddle AgedPeritoneal NeoplasmsPrognosisFluorouracilLeucovorinMethotrexate

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PMID14735184
PMCPMC2409568
OpenAlexW2039297622

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