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ReviewFrontiers in oncology2014

New approaches to radiation protection.

Eliot M Rosen, Regina Day, Vijay K Singh

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Review in Frontiers in oncology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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57citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

57 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

3 authors.

Eliot M RosenDepartments of Oncology, Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, and Radiation Medicine, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University School of Medicine , Washington, DC , USA.
Regina DayDepartment of Pharmacology, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences , Bethesda, MD , USA.
Vijay K SinghDepartment of Radiation Biology, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences , Bethesda, MD , USA ; Radiation Countermeasures Program, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences , Bethesda, MD , USA.

Funding

Tissue Culture Shared ResourceP30CA051008 · NCI · GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY · PI Louis M Weiner · 1990 to 2026
$71.5M
Enhancing cancer treatment by normal tissue protectionR01CA184168 · NCI · GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY · PI FORNACE, ALBERT J · 2014 to 2018
$2.0M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA051008NCI NIH HHS R01 CA184168
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Radioprotectors are compounds that protect against radiation injury when given prior to radiation exposure. Mitigators can protect against radiation injury when given after exposure but before symptoms appear. Radioprotectors and mitigators can potentially improve the outcomes of radiotherapy for cancer treatment by allowing higher doses of radiation and/or reduced damage to normal tissues. Such compounds can also potentially counteract the effects of accidental exposure to radiation or deliberate exposure (e.g., nuclear reactor meltdown, dirty bomb, or nuclear bomb explosion); hence they are called radiation countermeasures. Here, we will review the general principles of radiation injury and protection and describe selected examples of radioprotectors/mitigators ranging from small-molecules to proteins to cell-based treatments. We will emphasize agents that are in more advanced stages of development.

Indexed as

cancer treatmentirradiationmitigatorsradiation protectionradioprotectors

Identifiers

PMID25653923
PMCPMC4299410

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