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ReviewCurrent hematologic malignancy reports2017

A View from the Plateau: Is There a Role for Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation in the Era of Highly Effective Therapies for Multiple Myeloma?

Damian J Green, William I Bensinger

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Review in Current hematologic malignancy reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 25% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Presalvage International Staging System Stage and Other Important Outcome Associations in CD34Biology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation · 2020
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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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Damian J GreenFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1100 Fairview Ave. N. MS: D3-190, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA.
William I BensingerMyeloma & Transplant Program, Swedish Cancer Institute, 1221 Madison Street, Suite 1007, Seattle, WA, 98104, USA. william.bensinger@swedish.org.
Swedish Medical Center · USUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant (allo-HCT) represents the earliest form of immunotherapy used to treat multiple myeloma (MM). Since the first successful myeloablative allografts were performed in the early 1980s, highly effective new agents to treat this disease have been identified at an unprecedented pace. Currently, sixteen FDA-approved therapies are available to treat MM. As a consequence of these advances, the median overall survival for standard risk MM patients has extended to over 7 years. In light of the effective treatment options available, and as a consequence of high rates of toxicity, the role of allo-HCT to treat MM has been called into question. Patients with high-risk disease however continue to face early relapse and death, underscoring the need for approaches that more effectively treat this group. Moreover, allo-HCT remains the only mechanism through which MM patients are reliably cured and for the high-risk population represent an important treatment option that provides them access to an otherwise elusive survival plateau.

Indexed as

Stem Cell TransplantationAntibodies, MonoclonalGraft vs Host DiseaseHumansImmunotherapyMultiple MyelomaNeoplasm, ResidualSurvival RateTransplantation, HomologousAntibodies, MonoclonalAllogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantImmunotherapyMultiple myelomaStem cell transplantation

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PMID28144893
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