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ArticleJournal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology2015

Brachytherapy: where has it gone?

Daniel G Petereit, Steven J Frank, Akila N Viswanathan, Beth Erickson, Patricia Eifel, Paul L Nguyen, David E Wazer

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
39citing 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

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

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Trends in brachytherapy utilization in Canada from 2011 to 2020.Physics and imaging in radiation oncology · 2026
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  5. A review of artificial intelligence in brachytherapy.Journal of applied clinical medical physics · 2025
    Review
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  11. Development, implementation, and results of a simulation-based hands-on brachytherapy workshop for medical students.Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] · 2023
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  17. The value of brachytherapy in the age of advanced external beam radiotherapy: a review of the literature in terms of dosimetry.Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] · 2022
    Review
  18. The efficacy and safety ofFrontiers in oncology · 2022
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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

7 authors.

Daniel G PetereitRapid City Regional Cancer Center, Rapid City, SD dpetereit@regionalhealth.com.
Steven J FrankUniversity of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.
Akila N ViswanathanBrigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Beth EricksonMedical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.
Patricia EifelUniversity of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.
Paul L NguyenBrigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
David E WazerTufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, and Rhode Island Hospital, The Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI.

Funding

Tumor Evolution and Metastasis ProgramP30CA016672 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI Scott Kopetz · 1985 to 2026
$290.8M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BrachytherapyEvidence-Based MedicineFemaleHumansMaleMedical OncologyProstatic NeoplasmsTreatment OutcomeUterine Cervical Neoplasms

Identifiers

PMID25667278
PMCPMC5320953

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