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ReviewChinese journal of cancer2014

Radiation and concomitant chemotherapy for patients with glioblastoma multiforme.

Salvador Villà, Carme Balañà, Sílvia Comas

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Review in Chinese journal of cancer, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 31% 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Diamond Nanoparticles Downregulate Expression ofMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019
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  12. The expression of miRNA-221 and miRNA-222 in gliomas patients and their prognosis.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2017
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  15. High-grade gliomas: reality and hopes.Chinese journal of cancer · 2014
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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Salvador VillàRadiation Oncology, Catalan Institute of Oncology, HU Germans Trias, Badalona 08916, Catalonia, Spain. svilla@iconcologia.net.
Carme Balañà
Sílvia Comas
Radiation Oncology Associates · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Postoperative external beam radiotherapy was considered the standard adjuvant treatment for patients with glioblastoma multiforme until the advent of using the drug temozolomide (TMZ) in addition to radiotherapy. High-dose volume should be focal, minimizing whole brain irradiation. Modern imaging, using several magnetic resonance sequences, has improved the planning target volume definition. The total dose delivered should be in the range of 60 Gy in fraction sizes of 1.8-2.0 Gy. Currently, TMZ concomitant and adjuvant to radiotherapy has become the standard of care for glioblastoma multiforme patients. Radiotherapy dose-intensification and radiosensitizer approaches have not improved the outcome. In spite of the lack of high quality evidence, stereotactic radiotherapy can be considered for a selected group of patients. For elderly patients, data suggest that the same survival benefit can be achieved with similar morbidity using a shorter course of radiotherapy (hypofractionation). Elderly patients with tumors that exhibit methylation of the O-6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase promoter can benefit from TMZ alone.

Indexed as

ChemoradiotherapyRadiosurgeryAgedAntineoplastic Agents, AlkylatingBrain NeoplasmsDacarbazineDNA MethylationDNA Modification MethylasesDNA Repair EnzymesDose Fractionation, RadiationGlioblastomaHumansTemozolomideTumor Suppressor ProteinsAntineoplastic Agents, AlkylatingDacarbazineDNA Modification MethylasesDNA Repair EnzymesMGMT protein, humanTemozolomideTumor Suppressor Proteins

Identifiers

PMID24325790
PMCPMC3905087
OpenAlexW2083711667

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