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ReviewChinese journal of cancer2015

Ovarian cancer standard of care: are there real alternatives?

Chiara Della Pepa, Giuseppe Tonini, Carmela Pisano, Marilena Di Napoli, Sabrina Chiara Cecere, Rosa Tambaro, Gaetano Facchini, Sando Pignata

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Review in Chinese journal of cancer, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
62citing papers in PubMed
13.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

62 citing papers in PubMed, 95 citations in OpenAlex.

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2 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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 at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Chiara Della PepaDepartment of Medical Oncology, Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Via Alvaro Del Portillo, 200, Rome 00128, Italy. chiaradellapepa@hotmail.it.
Giuseppe Tonini
Carmela Pisano
Marilena Di Napoli
Sabrina Chiara Cecere
Rosa Tambaro
Gaetano Facchini
Sando Pignata
Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS "Fondazione G. Pascale" · ITUniversità Campus Bio-Medico · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ovarian cancer remains a major issue for gynecological oncologists, and most patients are diagnosed when the disease is already advanced with a poor chance of survival. Debulking surgery followed by platinum-taxane chemotherapy is the current standard of care, but based on several different strategies currently under evaluation, some encouraging data have been published in the last 4 to 5 years. This review provides a state-of-the-art overview of the available alternatives to conventional treatment and the most promising new combinations. For example, neoadjuvant chemotherapy does not seem to be inferior to primary debulking. Despite its outcome improvements, intraperitoneal chemotherapy struggles for acceptance due to the heavy toxicity. Dose-dense chemotherapy, after showing an impressive efficacy in Asian populations, has not produced equal results in a European cohort, and the results of alternative platinum doublets are not superior to those of carboplatin and paclitaxel. In this setting, adherence to a maintenance therapy after first-line treatment and multiple (primarily antiangiogenic) agents appears to be effective. Although many questions, including the duration of maintenance treatment and the use of bevacizumab beyond progression, remain unanswered, new biologic agents, such as poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors, nintedanib, and mitogen-activated protein/extracellular signal-regulated kinase (MEK) inhibitors, have emerged as potential therapeutic options in the very near future. Based on the multiplicity of available strategies, the histological and molecular features of the tumor, in addition to patient's clinical condition and disease state, continue to gain importance in guiding treatment choices.

Indexed as

Standard of CareCarcinoma, Ovarian EpithelialFemaleHumansMolecular Targeted TherapyNeoplasms, Glandular and EpithelialOvarian NeoplasmsPoly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase InhibitorsPoly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase Inhibitors

Identifiers

PMID25556615
PMCPMC4302086
OpenAlexW2027110022

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