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ReviewWorld journal of gastroenterology2016

Adjuvant radiochemotherapy for gastric cancer: Should we use prognostic factors to select patients?

Linda Agolli, Riccardo Maurizi Enrici, Mattia Falchetto Osti

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Review in World journal of gastroenterology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 16% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Chemoradiotherapy or chemotherapy as adjuvant treatment for resected gastric cancer: should we use selection criteria?Reports of practical oncology and radiotherapy : journal of Greatpoland Cancer Center in Poznan and Polish Society of Radiation Oncology · 2021
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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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

Linda AgolliLinda Agolli, Riccardo Maurizi Enrici, Mattia Falchetto Osti, Radiation Oncology, Sant'Andrea Hospital, 00189 Rome, Italy.
Riccardo Maurizi EnriciLinda Agolli, Riccardo Maurizi Enrici, Mattia Falchetto Osti, Radiation Oncology, Sant'Andrea Hospital, 00189 Rome, Italy.
Mattia Falchetto OstiLinda Agolli, Riccardo Maurizi Enrici, Mattia Falchetto Osti, Radiation Oncology, Sant'Andrea Hospital, 00189 Rome, Italy.
CTO Andrea Alesini · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Radiotherapy has a not well-established role in the pre-operative and in the post-operative setting in gastric cancer (GC) patients. Randomized trials report controversial outcomes and impact on survival. In the D2 loco-regional node resection era, after a well-performed radical surgery, local treatment using radiotherapy combined to chemotherapy should be considered for locally advanced GC. Prognostic factors could help the better selection of subgroups that present high risk of loco-regional recurrence. Then, the addition of radiotherapy could improve the disease-free survival and also quality of life. There are no large prospective studies that have assessed specific factors predicting for recurrence or survival, but only retrospective series, some of them including high number of patients with homogeneous characteristics. In locally advanced GC adding radiotherapy to the post-operative chemotherapy seems to improve outcomes and quality of life. Prognostic factors such as T-stage, N-status, nodal ratio, and other histological factors should be considered to submit patients to post-operative combined treatment. Larger prospective series are necessary to investigate the role of combined chemoradiation after radical D2-resection, especially in locally advanced GC. Further prospective investigations are needed to suggest prognostic factors that have significant impact on survival and recurrence, improving the management and outcomes, particularly in locally advanced GC patients.

Indexed as

Chemoradiotherapy, AdjuvantGastrectomyDisease-Free SurvivalHumansLymphatic MetastasisLymph Node ExcisionNeoplasm Recurrence, LocalNeoplasm, ResidualNeoplasm StagingPredictive Value of TestsRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicRisk AssessmentRisk FactorsStomach NeoplasmsTime FactorsTreatment OutcomeAdjuvant radiotherapyGastric cancerLocally advanced diseasePrognostic factorsSelected patients

Identifiers

PMID26811652
PMCPMC4716025
OpenAlexW2409145903

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