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ArticleWorld journal of clinical oncology2012

Everolimus plus long-acting somatostatin analogs in thymic epithelial malignancies.

Giovannella Palmieri, Carlo Buonerba, Piera Federico, Luigi Formisano, Lucia Nappi, Giuseppe Di Lorenzo, Mirella Marino, Vincenzo Damiano

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Article in World journal of clinical oncology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Thymic Epithelial Tumors: An Evolving Field.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Giovannella PalmieriClinical Endocrinology and Oncology Department, UniversityFederico II, Via Pansini 5, 80128 Naples,Italy. giovpalm@unina.it
Carlo Buonerba
Piera Federico
Luigi Formisano
Lucia Nappi
Giuseppe Di Lorenzo
Mirella Marino
Vincenzo Damiano
Institute for Experimental Endocrinology and Oncology · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although thymic epithelial tumors (TETs) are rare in the general population, they represent the most frequently diagnosed primary malignant tumor of the anterior mediastinum. Unlike localized disease, metastatic disease is invariably fatal. While several chemotherapy agents have proven to be effective in TETs, somatostatin analogs are the only targeted agents with an established role in this disease. Everolimus is an mTOR inhibitor with multiple application in oncology. In this report, we show for the first time that everolimus was effective in two heavily pretreated patients with advanced TETs, with a progression-free survival longer than 1 year and minimal toxicity.

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EverolimusMediastinummTORTargetThymoma

Identifiers

PMID22787579
PMCPMC3394082
OpenAlexW2011267429

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