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ReviewNature reviews. Drug discovery2010

Personalized medicine in oncology: the future is now.

Richard L Schilsky

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Review in Nature reviews. Drug discovery, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 127 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
127citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

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

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  5. Battlegrounds of treatment resistance: decoding the tumor microenvironment.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2025
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  16. Learning Individual Survival Models from PanCancer Whole Transcriptome Data.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2023
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67 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Richard L SchilskyComprehensive Cancer Center, University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC 2115, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. rschilsk@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer chemotherapy is in evolution from non-specific cytotoxic drugs that damage both tumour and normal cells to more specific agents and immunotherapy approaches. Targeted agents are directed at unique molecular features of cancer cells, and immunotherapeutics modulate the tumour immune response; both approaches aim to produce greater effectiveness with less toxicity. The development and use of such agents in biomarker-defined populations enables a more personalized approach to cancer treatment than previously possible and has the potential to reduce the cost of cancer care.

Indexed as

Drug Delivery SystemsPrecision MedicineAntineoplastic AgentsBiomarkers, TumorDrug DesignHealth Care CostsHumansImmunotherapyNeoplasmsAntineoplastic AgentsBiomarkers, Tumor

Identifiers

PMID20431568

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.