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ReviewAsian journal of andrology

Role of chemotherapy in prostate cancer.

Rita Nader, Joelle El Amm, Jeanny B Aragon-Ching

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Review in Asian journal of andrology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
65citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

65 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 136 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rita NaderDepartment of Internal Medicine, Lebanese American University, Beirut 1102 2801, Lebanon.
Joelle El AmmDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Lebanese American University, Beirut 1102 2801, Lebanon.
Jeanny B Aragon-ChingGenitourinary Medical Oncology, Inova Schar Cancer Institute, Fairfax, VA 22031, USA.
Lebanese American University · LB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chemotherapy in prostate cancer (PCa) has undergone dramatic landscape changes. While earlier studies utilized varying chemotherapy regimens which were found to be largely palliative in nature and hardly resulted in durable or meaningful responses, docetaxel resulted in the first chemotherapy agent that showed improvement in overall survival in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). However, combination chemotherapy or any agents added to docetaxel have failed to yield incremental benefits. The improvement in overall survival as well as secondary endpoints of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and time to recurrence when using docetaxel in the metastatic hormone-sensitive state has changed the standard of care for treatment of newly diagnosed de novo metastatic PCa. There are also promising results in locally advanced PCa and high-risk PCa in both the neoadjuvant and adjuvant settings. This review summarizes the historical as well as the more contemporary use of chemotherapeutic agents in PCa in varying states and phases of disease.

Indexed as

Antineoplastic AgentsAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsChemotherapy, AdjuvantDocetaxelHistory, 20th CenturyHistory, 21st CenturyHumansMaleNeoadjuvant TherapyProstatic NeoplasmsTaxoidsAntineoplastic AgentscabazitaxelDocetaxelTaxoidsdocetaxelmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancerprostate cancer

Identifiers

PMID29063869
PMCPMC5952475
OpenAlexW2766975867

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