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ReviewCurrent neurology and neuroscience reports2011

Advances in MRI assessment of gliomas and response to anti-VEGF therapy.

Whitney B Pope, Jonathan R Young, Benjamin M Ellingson

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Review in Current neurology and neuroscience reports, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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58citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Whitney B PopeDepartment of Radiological Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, BL-428 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1721, USA. wpope@mednet.ucla.edu
Jonathan R Young
Benjamin M Ellingson

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bevacizumab is thought to normalize tumor vasculature and restore the blood-brain barrier, decreasing enhancement and peritumoral edema. Conventional measurements of tumor response rely upon dimensions of enhancing tumor. After bevacizumab treatment, glioblastomas are more prone to progress as nonenhancing tumor. The RANO (Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology) criteria for glioma response use fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR)/T2 hyperintensity as a surrogate for nonenhancing tumor; however, nonenhancing tumor can be difficult to differentiate from other causes of FLAIR/T2 hyperintensity (e.g., radiation-induced gliosis). Due to these difficulties, recent efforts have been directed toward identifying new biomarkers that either predict treatment response or accurately measure response of both enhancing and nonenhancing tumor shortly after treatment initiation. This will allow for earlier treatment decisions, saving patients from the adverse effects of ineffective therapies while allowing them to try alternative therapies sooner. An active area of research is the use of physiologic imaging, which can potentially detect treatment effects before changes in tumor size are evident.

Indexed as

Angiogenesis InhibitorsAntibodies, MonoclonalAntibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedBevacizumabBiomarkers, TumorGliomaHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingVascular Endothelial Growth Factor AAngiogenesis InhibitorsAntibodies, MonoclonalAntibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedBevacizumabBiomarkers, TumorVascular Endothelial Growth Factor A

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PMID21234719
PMCPMC3075404

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