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ReviewJournal of therapeutic ultrasound2013

High-intensity focused ultrasound plus concomitant radiotherapy: a new weapon in oncology?

Giovanni Borasi, Giorgio Russo, Filippo Alongi, Alan Nahum, Giuliana Carmela Candiano, Alessandro Stefano, Maria Carla Gilardi, Cristina Messa

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Review in Journal of therapeutic ultrasound, 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.

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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

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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

8 authors.

Giovanni BorasiUniversity of Milano-Bicocca, Milan 20126, Italy.
Giorgio RussoIBFM CNR-LATO, Cefalù, Palermo, 90015, Italy.
Filippo AlongiIstituto Clinico Humanitas, Milan, 20089, Italy.
Alan NahumClatterbridge Cancer Centre, Bebington, CH63 4JY, UK.
Giuliana Carmela CandianoIBFM CNR-LATO, Cefalù, Palermo, 90015, Italy.
Alessandro StefanoIBFM CNR-LATO, Cefalù, Palermo, 90015, Italy.
Maria Carla GilardiIBFM-CNR, Segrate, Milan, 20090, Italy.
Cristina MessaUniversity of Milano-Bicocca, Milan 20126, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The potential impact of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) to general medicine and oncology seems very high. However, while in the research area, the development of this technique is very rapid and unchallenged. The direct application of HIFU to human tumour therapy is hampered by various technical difficulties, which may confine its role to a marginal device in the surgery armamentarium. To deploy the full potential of focused ultrasound in oncology, it seems necessary to review the basic relationship between HIFU and external beam radiotherapy. This is the aim of the present work.

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A new weapon against cancerEBRTHIFUHTIntegration of HIFU and EBRT

Identifiers

PMID24761227
PMCPMC3988614

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