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ReviewDrugs2012

Management of small cell lung cancer: recent developments for optimal care.

Raffaele Califano, Aidalena Z Abidin, Rahul Peck, Corinne Faivre-Finn, Paul Lorigan

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Review in Drugs, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
35citing papers in PubMed
5.1field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

35 citing papers in PubMed, 69 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Progress and application of lung-on-a-chip for lung cancer.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024
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  2. AntigeneCancers · 2023
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  5. The impact of symptoms and comorbidity on health utility scores and health-related quality of life in small cell lung cancer using real world data.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2021
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  6. CRISPR-mediated modeling and functional validation of candidate tumor suppressor genes in small cell lung cancer.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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  10. Role of Chemosensory TRP Channels in Lung Cancer.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018
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  16. A Novel Technique to Detect EGFR Mutations in Lung Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2016
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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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Raffaele CalifanoDepartment of Medical Oncology, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK. raffaele.califano@christie.nhs.uk
Aidalena Z Abidin
Rahul Peck
Corinne Faivre-Finn
Paul Lorigan
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) represents approximately 13% of all lung cancer diagnoses and the incidence has reduced over the last 20 years. Treatment of SCLC remains challenging because of its rapid growth, early dissemination and development of drug resistance during the course of the disease. Chemotherapy remains the cornerstone of treatment for limited (LD) and extensive disease (ED), with concurrent chemotherapy and radical thoracic radiotherapy representing the best treatment option for fit patients with LD. Platinum-based chemotherapy is the treatment of choice in fit patients with good organ function, and the radiosensitizing effect of cisplatin is critically important for concurrent chemoradiotherapy in LD. Anthracycline-containing regimens represent a viable alternative for patients where platinum-based chemotherapy is contraindicated. Patients who relapse or progress after first-line chemotherapy have a very poor prognosis. Second-line therapy may produce a modest clinical benefit. Maintenance chemotherapy has not been shown to convincingly improve outcomes for SCLC. A number of targeted agents have been investigated in LD and ED, mostly in unselected populations, with disappointing results. Prophylactic cranial irradiation has been shown to reduce the incidence of brain metastases and prolong survival for both LD and ED without negative impact on quality of life (QOL) and cognitive function. Ongoing trials will shed some light on the impact of thoracic radiotherapy on QOL, symptom control and survival in ED SCLC patients who benefitted from first-line chemotherapy.

Indexed as

Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsCombined Modality TherapyDrug Resistance, NeoplasmHumansLung NeoplasmsQuality of LifeRadiotherapy, AdjuvantSmall Cell Lung Carcinoma

Identifiers

PMID22356287
OpenAlexW2032517155

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