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ArticleWorld journal of clinical oncology2017

Long-term stabilization of metastatic melanoma with sodium dichloroacetate.

Akbar Khan, Doug Andrews, Jill Shainhouse, Anneke C Blackburn

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Article in World journal of clinical oncology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 27% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Dichloroacetate for Cancer Treatment: Some Facts and Many Doubts.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  2. Thiazolidinedione enhances the efficacy of anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody in murine melanoma.American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism · 2024
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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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Akbar KhanAkbar Khan, Doug Andrews, Medicor Cancer Centres Inc, Toronto, ON M2N 6N4, Canada.
Doug AndrewsAkbar Khan, Doug Andrews, Medicor Cancer Centres Inc, Toronto, ON M2N 6N4, Canada.
Jill ShainhouseAkbar Khan, Doug Andrews, Medicor Cancer Centres Inc, Toronto, ON M2N 6N4, Canada.
Anneke C BlackburnAkbar Khan, Doug Andrews, Medicor Cancer Centres Inc, Toronto, ON M2N 6N4, Canada.
Occupational Cancer Research Centre · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sodium dichloroacetate (DCA) has been studied as a metabolic cancer therapy since 2007, based on a publication from Bonnet et al demonstrating that DCA can induce apoptosis (programmed cell death) in human breast, lung and brain cancer cells. Classically, the response of cancer to a medical therapy in human research is measured by Response Evaluation Criterial for Solid Tumours definitions, which define "response" by the degree of tumour reduction, or tumour disappearance on imaging, however disease stabilization is also a beneficial clinical outcome. It has been shown that DCA can function as a cytostatic agent

Indexed as

BRAFCancerCytostaticDichloroacetateMelanoma

Identifiers

PMID28848705
PMCPMC5554882
OpenAlexW2742745499

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