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ArticleClinical and experimental medicine2008

Darbepoetin in the control of cancer-related anaemia.

Fabrizio Franchi, Carlo Pastore, Giuseppe Nigita, Patrizia Seminara

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Article in Clinical and experimental medicine, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Erythropoietin or darbepoetin for patients with cancer.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Fabrizio FranchiDepartment of Clinical Medicine, University of Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy. fabriziofranchi@interfree.it
Carlo Pastore
Giuseppe Nigita
Patrizia Seminara
Sapienza University of Rome · ITPoliclinico Casilino · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A group of 62 patients with different advanced cancers and with an anaemic condition were treated with a short course of darbepoetin administered on two different schedules as supportive therapy. The response rates (i.e. a haemoglobin increase of at least 1 g in 1 month) were 45.7% overall, 52.3% with weekly administration and 39% with 3-weekly administration. Darbepoetin activity was higher in men than in women, in younger patients than in older patients and in moderately anaemic patients than in severely anaemic patients, but these differences were not significant. Darbepoetin administration appears to be useful in rapidly reversing anaemia related to advanced cancer. However, the results reported in the literature for alpha-erythropoietin remain more appealing.

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AgedAnemiaDarbepoetin alfaErythropoietinFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasmsTreatment OutcomeDarbepoetin alfaErythropoietin

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PMID18825479
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