Evidence map›Paper›PMID 17512859›Full record

ReviewLancet (London, England)2007

Metastasis: recent discoveries and novel treatment strategies.

Suzanne A Eccles, Danny R Welch

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Review in Lancet (London, England), 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 352 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
352citing papers in PubMed
46.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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.

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

352 citing papers in PubMed, 723 citations in OpenAlex.

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292 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Suzanne A EcclesTumour Biology and Metastasis, Cancer Research UK Centre for Cancer Therapeutics, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, UK. Sue.Eccles@icr.ac.uk
Danny R Welch
Institute of Cancer Research · GBNational Foundation for Cancer Research · US

Funding

MOLECULAR REGULATION OF BREAST CANCER METASTASISR01CA087728 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI WELCH, DANNY R. · 2000 to 2008
$2.7M
METASTASIS SUPPRESSOR GENES IN HUMAN CUTANEOUS MELANOMAR01CA062168 · NCI · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV HERSHEY MED CTR · PI WELCH, DANNY R · 1994 to 1999
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NCI NIH HHS R01 CA062168NCI NIH HHS R01 CA087728
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most cancer deaths are due to the development of metastases, hence the most important improvements in morbidity and mortality will result from prevention (or elimination) of such disseminated disease. Some would argue that treatments directed against metastasis are too late because cells have already escaped from the primary tumour. Such an assertion runs contrary to the significant but (for many common adult cancers) fairly modest improvements in survival following the use of adjuvant radiation and chemotherapy designed to eliminate disseminated cells after surgical removal of the primary tumour. Nonetheless, the debate raises important issues concerning the accurate early identification of clonogenic, metastatic cells, the discovery of novel, tractable targets for therapy, and the monitoring of minimal residual disease. We focus on recent findings regarding intrinsic and extrinsic molecular mechanisms controlling metastasis that determine how, when, and where cancers metastasise, and their implications for patient management in the 21st century.

Indexed as

AdultAnoikisAntineoplastic AgentsGenes, Tumor SuppressorHumansMolecular BiologyNeoplasm MetastasisNeovascularization, PathologicOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisAntineoplastic Agents

Identifiers

PMID17512859
PMCPMC2214903
OpenAlexW2146678830

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