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ReviewAnnual review of medicine2018

New Concepts in the Treatment of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma.

Ori Wald, David J Sugarbaker

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Review in Annual review of medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Novel and Future Treatment Options in Mesothelioma: A Systematic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  11. Proton beam therapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma.Translational lung cancer research · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ori WaldDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
David J SugarbakerDivision of General Thoracic Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of General Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem · ILLung Institute · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a highly aggressive and generally incurable cancer. Current anti-MPM chemotherapy-based treatments are only marginally effective, and long-term survival remains an unmet goal. Nonetheless, in selected cases, personalized surgery-based multimodality treatments (MMT) have been shown to significantly extend survival. The design of MMT and selection of patients are challenging, and optimal results require accurate presurgical diagnosis, staging, and risk stratification. Further, meticulous surgical techniques and advanced radiation protocols must be applied. We review key principles and evolving concepts in the care of MPM patients with a focus on the expanding role of MMT in MPM.

Indexed as

Angiogenesis InhibitorsAntineoplastic Agents, ImmunologicalAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsChemotherapy, AdjuvantCombined Modality TherapyHumansLung NeoplasmsMaintenance ChemotherapyMesotheliomaMesothelioma, MalignantNeoadjuvant TherapyNeoplasm StagingPleural NeoplasmsRadiotherapyRadiotherapy, AdjuvantRadiotherapy, Intensity-ModulatedAngiogenesis InhibitorsAntineoplastic Agents, Immunologicalcytoreductionimmunotherapymesotheliomasurgery

Identifiers

PMID29029582
OpenAlexW2668213960

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