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ArticleNature2016

Perspective: The precision-oncology illusion.

Vinay Prasad

3 registry-linked trialsAbstract read
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In one paragraph

Article in Nature, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 3 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 166 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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166citing papers in PubMed, 3 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.

NCT05189171 completednot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

MicroOrganoSphere Drug Screen to Lead Care (MODEL) Precision Oncology Pilot Trial in Colorectal Cancer (CRC)

TypeobservationalSponsorXilis, Inc.Ran2022 to 2024Enrolled46ConditionsColorectal NeoplasmsArmsMicroOrganoSphere (MOS) drug screen
NCT05767528 unknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

Clinical Study of Neoadjuvant Therapy Outcome Prediction of Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer Based on PTC Drug Sensitivity Detection

TypeobservationalSponsorChinese PLA General HospitalRan2022 to 2024Enrolled40ConditionsMuscle-Invasive Bladder CarcinomaArmsPatient-derived tumor-like cell clusters (PTC) drug sensitivity testing
NCT06842030 nanot yet recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Feasibility Trial of Darwin OncoTreat and OncoTarget Precision Medicine Testing to Improve Outcomes for Patients With Limited Metastatic Disease That Failed First-Line Systemic Therapy

TypeinterventionalSponsorGood Samaritan Hospital Medical Center, New YorkRan2025 to 2027Enrolled20ConditionsPersonalized Medicine, Oligometastatic Disease, FeasibilityArmsDarwin OncoTarget and OncoTreat
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

166 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  19. Improving the Dosing Schedules of Targeted Anticancer Agents.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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106 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Vinay PrasadKnight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Genetic TestingMedical OncologyMolecular Targeted TherapyPrecision MedicineDisease-Free SurvivalEverolimusHumansIllusionsNeoplasmsRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicReproducibility of ResultsSample SizeTreatment OutcomeEverolimus

Identifiers

PMID27602743

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