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ArticleCancers2011

Targets and mechanisms of photodynamic therapy in lung cancer cells: a brief overview.

Angela Chiaviello, Ilaria Postiglione, Giuseppe Palumbo

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Article in Cancers, 2011. 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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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

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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.

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  11. The Photomodulation Activity of Metformin Against Oral Microbiome.Journal of lasers in medical sciences · 2019
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  14. Malignant central airway obstruction.Journal of thoracic disease · 2017
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  16. Photodynamic Therapy in Non-Gastrointestinal Thoracic Malignancies.International journal of molecular sciences · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Angela ChiavielloDepartment of Biologia e Patologia Cellulare e Molecolare "L. Califano" - Università Federico II, Via S. Pansini, 5 80131 Naples, Italy. palumbo@unina.it.
Ilaria Postiglione
Giuseppe Palumbo

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lung cancer remains one of the most common cancer-related causes of death. This type of cancer typically develops over a period of many years, and if detected at an early enough stage can be eliminated by a variety of treatments including photodynamic therapy (PDT). A critical discussion on the clinical applications of PDT in lung cancer is well outside the scope of the present report, which, in turn focuses on mechanistic and other aspects of the photodynamic action at a molecular and cellular level. The knowledge of these issues at pre-clinical levels is necessary to develop, check and adopt appropriate clinical protocols in the future. This report, besides providing general information, includes a brief overview of present experimental PDT and provides some non-exhaustive information on current strategies aimed at further improving the efficacy, especially in regard to lung cancer cells.

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PMID24212652
PMCPMC3756402

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