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ReviewCurrent oncology reports2014

Advances in the management of low-grade gliomas.

Amulya A Nageswara Rao, Roger J Packer

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Review in Current oncology reports, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
24citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

24 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Second-look surgery in postoperative pediatric low-grade glioma.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2024
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  13. Pediatric low-grade glioma in the era of molecular diagnostics.Acta neuropathologica communications · 2020
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  14. Pathology-MRI Correlations in Diffuse Low-Grade Epilepsy Associated Tumors.Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology · 2017
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  19. An integrative molecular and genomic analysis of pediatric hemispheric low-grade gliomas: an update.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2016
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  20. Conventional chemotherapy and perspectives for molecular-based oncological treatment in pediatric hemispheric low-grade gliomas.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2016
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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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Amulya A Nageswara RaoDivision of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA, nageswararao.amulya@mayo.edu.
Roger J Packer
Children's National · USMayo Clinic · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Low-grade gliomas (LGGs) represent the most common childhood brain tumors and are a histologically heterogenous group of tumors. Most LGGs are surgically resectable with excellent 10-year overall survival outcomes of more than 90 % with surgery alone. Tumors not amenable to surgical resection and those with an aggressive biology are more challenging to treat. Conventional radiotherapy is a more efficacious method of long-term tumor control than chemotherapy. However, radiation is associated with significant cognitive, endocrine, and cerebrovascular late effects, making chemotherapy an often-preferred modality over radiotherapy, especially in younger children. Multiple chemotherapy regimens have been evaluated over the past few decades with comparable survival outcomes and differing toxicity profiles. Newer regimens containing antiangiogenic agents also show promise. Recent molecular studies have implicated the BRAF oncogene, a key regulator of the MAPK pathway, and the AKT/mTOR pathway in pediatric LGG tumorigenesis. This has opened up promising new avenues for targeted therapy, with many agents currently under investigation.

Indexed as

Antineoplastic AgentsCentral Nervous System NeoplasmsChildClinical Trials as TopicCombined Modality TherapyGliomaHumansMolecular Targeted TherapyAntineoplastic Agents

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PMID24925153
OpenAlexW2059773010

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