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ReviewCurrent oncology reports2016

Advances in Local and Systemic Therapies for Hepatocellular Cancer.

Ali A Mokdad, Amit G Singal, Adam C Yopp

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Review in Current oncology reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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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

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ali A MokdadDivision of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA.
Amit G SingalDivision of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA.
Adam C YoppDivision of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA. adam.yopp@utsouthwestern.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Global incidence and mortality of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has increased over the past two decades. Although transplantation and surgical resection offer a chance for cure and long-term survival, most patients present with more advanced tumor stage when these therapies are not possible. Although rarely curative, locoregional therapy with transarterial chemoembolization or radioembolization offers a survival benefit for those with liver-isolated HCC who are not amenable to curative therapies. Patients with metastatic disease or macrovascular invasion are treated with systemic therapy; however, median survival remains below 1 year. Patients with severe liver dysfunction or poor performance status should be treated with best supportive care given poor prognosis and no survival benefit for treatment. Lack of predictive and prognostic biomarkers in intermediate and advanced HCC tumors has hampered integration of clinical and molecular data to aid tailoring treatment decisions. However, with increasingly complex treatment decisions, optimal outcomes are achieved through multidisciplinary care.

Indexed as

Chemoembolization, TherapeuticHepatectomyLiver TransplantationCarcinoma, HepatocellularCombined Modality TherapyEarly Detection of CancerHumansInterdisciplinary CommunicationLiver NeoplasmsNeoplasm StagingSurvival RateHepatocellular carcinomaLiver cancerLiver diseaseLocoregional therapyStagingSystemic therapy

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