Is anti-hormonal treatment in DCIS of the breast a need?

Waa Tjalma

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Article in Facts, views & vision in ObGyn, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Waa TjalmaMultidisciplinary Breast Clinic, Gynecological Oncology Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Antwerp University Hospital - University of Antwerp, Belgium.

University of Antwerp · BE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ductal carcinomas in situ (DCIS) represent one fifth of all detected breast cancers. The detection of DCIS can be regarded as collateral damage of breast cancer screening. The treatment of DCIS is based on surgery with or without radiotherapy. Women treated for DCIS have a 10 years survival of 98 %. Could there be a role for systemic therapy in case of a DCIS? Recent published studies suggest there is. However, anti-hormonal therapy (tamoxifen, anastrozole) in DCIS causes an increased morbidity without a reduced mortality. There is an urgent need for evidence-based guidelines in the management of DCIS in order to make appropriate shared decisions.

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anastrozoleDCISmorbiditysurvivaltamoxifentreatment

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PMID28003873

PMCPMC5172575

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