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ReviewClinics in chest medicine2013

Malignant pleural mesothelioma: update on treatment options with a focus on novel therapies.

Andrew R Haas, Daniel H Sterman

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In one paragraph

Review in Clinics in chest medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
19citing papers in PubMed
5.7field-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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 40 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Does selective pleural irradiation of malignant pleural mesothelioma allow radiation dose escalation? : A planning study.Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] · 2017
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  17. Diagnosis and management options in malignant pleural effusions.Lung India : official organ of Indian Chest Society
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  19. Malignant Mesothelioma - Report of Two Cases with Different Presentations.Indian journal of occupational and environmental medicine
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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrew R HaasSection of Interventional Pulmonology and Thoracic Oncology, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Division, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, 833 West Gates Building, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283, USA.
Daniel H Sterman
University of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

VECTOR DEVELOPMENT /PRECLINICAL TESTINGP01CA066726 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI KALOS, MICHAEL D · 1995 to 2016
$18.2M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA066726
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is evidence that improved treatments of malignant pleural mesothelioma are increasing the quality and quantity of life for patients with mesothelioma. Multimodality treatment programs that combine maximal surgical cytoreduction with novel forms of radiation therapy and more effective chemotherapy combinations may offer significant increases in survival for certain subgroups of patients with mesothelioma. Lung-sparing surgery may allow improvements in pulmonary function after surgery-based multimodality therapy, and potential longer overall survival than that seen with extrapleural pneumonectomy. Experimental treatments provide hope for all patients with mesothelioma, and in the future may be combined with standard therapy in multimodality protocols.

Indexed as

Clinical Trials, Phase III as TopicCombined Modality TherapyGenetic TherapyHumansImmunotherapyMesotheliomaMolecular Targeted TherapyPleural NeoplasmsRandomized Controlled Trials as Topic

Identifiers

PMID23411061
PMCPMC3612173
OpenAlexW1661033900

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