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ReviewNature reviews. Clinical oncology2012

Paediatric and adult malignant glioma: close relatives or distant cousins?

Chris Jones, Lara Perryman, Darren Hargrave

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Review in Nature reviews. Clinical oncology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 130 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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130citing papers in PubMed, 3 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

130 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Primary and metastatic glioblastoma of the spine in the pediatric population: a systematic review.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2021
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  3. Association between epidermal growth factor gene rs4444903 polymorphism and risk of glioma.Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine · 2013
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  10. Bevacizumab in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2025
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  18. Discovery of highly potent and ALK2/ALK1 selective kinase inhibitors using DNA-encoded chemistry technology.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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70 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

3 authors.

Chris JonesDivisions of Molecular Pathology and Cancer Therapeutics, The Institute of Cancer Research, 15 Cotswold Road, Sutton SM2 5NG, UK.
Lara Perryman
Darren Hargrave

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gliomas in children differ from their adult counterparts by their distribution of histological grade, site of presentation and rate of malignant transformation. Although rare in the paediatric population, patients with high-grade gliomas have, for the most part, a comparably dismal clinical outcome to older patients with morphologically similar lesions. Molecular profiling data have begun to reveal the major genetic alterations underpinning these malignant tumours in children. Indeed, the accumulation of large datasets on adult high-grade glioma has revealed key biological differences between the adult and paediatric disease. Furthermore, subclassifications within the childhood age group can be made depending on age at diagnosis and tumour site. However, challenges remain on how to reconcile clinical data from adult patients to tailor novel treatment strategies specifically for paediatric patients.

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AdultAge FactorsBrain NeoplasmsChildGliomaHumansPrognosis

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