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ReviewNature reviews. Urology2018

Precision medicine for urothelial bladder cancer: update on tumour genomics and immunotherapy.

Kenneth M Felsenstein, Dan Theodorescu

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Review in Nature reviews. Urology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 102 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
102citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
18.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

102 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 166 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. SMK-002 inhibits the growth of bladder cancer cells and increases their sensitivity to OsimertinibThe Korean journal of physiology & pharmacology : official journal of the Korean Physiological Society and the Korean Society of Pharmacology · 2026
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  18. Circ-ITCH inhibits bladder cancer progression through miR-184/FOXO3 axis.American journal of translational research · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kenneth M FelsensteinDepartment of Surgery (Urology), University of Colorado, 12631 E. 17th Avenue, Aurora, Colorado, 80045, USA.
Dan TheodorescuDepartment of Surgery (Urology), University of Colorado, 12631 E. 17th Avenue, Aurora, Colorado, 80045, USA.
University of Colorado Hospital · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Effective management of advanced urothelial bladder cancer is challenging. New discoveries that improve our understanding of molecular bladder cancer subtypes have revealed numerous potentially targetable genomic alterations and demonstrated the efficacy of treatments that harness the immune system. These findings have begun to change paradigms of bladder cancer therapy. For example, DNA repair pathway mutations in genes such as ERCC2, FANCC, ATM, RB1, and others can predict responses to neoadjuvant platinum-based chemotherapies and to targeted therapies on the basis of mutation status. Furthermore, an increasing number of pan-cancer clinical trials (commonly referred to as basket or umbrella trials) are enrolling patients on the basis of molecular and genetic predictors of response. These studies promise to provide improved insight into the true utility of personalized medicine in the treatment of bladder cancer and many other cancer types. Finally, therapies that modulate immune responses have shown great benefit in many cancer types. Several immune checkpoint inhibitors that target programmed cell death protein 1 (PD1), its ligand PDL1, and cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated protein 4 (CTLA4) have already been approved for use in bladder cancer, representing the most important change to the urological oncologist's tool-kit in over a decade. These advances also provide opportunities for personalization of bladder cancer therapy.

Indexed as

Precision MedicineAntineoplastic Agents, ImmunologicalCarcinoma, Transitional CellChemotherapy, AdjuvantClinical Trials as TopicDNA Copy Number VariationsDNA RepairExome SequencingGene RearrangementHumansMolecular Targeted TherapyMutationUrinary Bladder NeoplasmsAntineoplastic Agents, Immunological

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PMID29133939
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