ArticleStrahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al]2013
A validated scoring system to identify long-term survivors after radiotherapy for metastatic spinal cord compression.
Article in Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al], 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled 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.
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.
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.
- Interventions for the treatment of metastatic extradural spinal cord compression in adults.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- Neurological outcome after emergency radiotherapy in MSCC of patients with non-small cell lung cancer--a prospective trial.Radiation oncology (London, England) · 2013Trial
- Who should receive single-fraction palliative radiotherapy for gastric cancer bleeding?: An exploratory analysis of a multicenter prospective observational study (JROSG 17-3).Clinical and translational radiation oncology · 2023Article
- A new and simple scoring system to predict overall survival after irradiation for metastatic spinal cord compression.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2020Article
- Article
- Overall survival after reirradiation of spinal metastases - independent validation of predictive models.Radiation oncology (London, England) · 2016Article
- Long-term survivors after surgical management of metastatic spinal cord compression.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2015Article
- Long-term safety and efficacy of fractionated stereotactic body radiation therapy for spinal metastases.Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] · 2014Article
- Development of a score predicting survival after palliative reirradiation.Journal of oncology · 2014Article
- Survival prediction score: a simple but age-dependent method predicting prognosis in patients undergoing palliative radiotherapy.ISRN oncology · 2014Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeThis study aimed to develop and validate a scoring system to identify long-term survivors after conventional radiotherapy (RT) for metastatic spinal cord compression (MSCC). PATIENTS AND
methodsData from 1,125 patients who had received long-course RT for MSCC were included in this study. Of these patients, 344 survived for over 12 months and 781 died within a year following RT. Based on differences between the distributions of patient characteristics in the two groups, a scoring system was developed. Scores ranged from 0 to 18 points and 15 points was selected as the cutoff for identifying long-term survivors. Data from the 1,125 long-course RT patients (test group) were compared to data from 773 patients receiving short-course RT (validation group).
resultsA score of ≥ 15 points was associated with a 94 % proportion of long-term survivors. The 15-point cutoff resulted in a specificity of 98 % and a positive predictive value of 94 % for identification of long-term surviving patients. The proportions of long-term survivors for each scoring point in the validation group were very similar to those in the test group.
conclusionThis new scoring system enabled identification of long-term survivors after RT for MSCC with very high specificity and positive predictive value. The score proved to be valid and reproducible.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.