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ReviewCA: a cancer journal for clinicians2018

Hodgkin lymphoma: A review and update on recent progress.

Satish Shanbhag, Richard F Ambinder

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Review in CA: a cancer journal for clinicians, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 252 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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252citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
20.0field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

252 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 476 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Estimating the global burden of Epstein-Barr virus-related cancers.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2022
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  19. Self-reported late effects and chronic fatigue, information needs and follow-up in long-term survivors of Hodgkin lymphoma-a cross-sectional study.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026
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192 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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 1 institution in 1 country.

Satish ShanbhagAssistant Professor of Medicine, Departments of Medicine and Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.ORCID 0000-0003-0663-6221
Richard F AmbinderDirector, Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Professor of Oncology, Departments of Medicine and Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Johns Hopkins University · US

Funding

Consortium for Advancing Management and Prevention of Cancer in People with HIVUM1CA121947 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI Joseph A. Sparano · 2015 to 2026
$253.7M
Translational Research Central ServicesP30CA006973 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Rosalie Wollett · 1985 to 2026
$208.6M
Vaccine Response and Immunotherapeutics SWGP30AI094189 · NIAID · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Richard E. Chaisson · 2012 to 2026
$67.0M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA006973NCI NIH HHS UM1 CA121947NIAID NIH HHS P30 AI094189
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is a unique hematopoietic neoplasm characterized by cancerous Reed-Sternberg cells in an inflammatory background. Patients are commonly diagnosed with HL in their 20s and 30s, and they present with supradiaphragmatic lymphadenopathy, often with systemic B symptoms. Even in advanced-stage disease, HL is highly curable with combination chemotherapy, radiation, or combined-modality treatment. Although the same doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine chemotherapeutic regimen has been the mainstay of therapy over the last 30 years, risk-adapted approaches have helped de-escalate therapy in low-risk patients while intensifying treatment for higher risk patients. Even patients who are not cured with initial therapy can often be salvaged with alternate chemotherapy combinations, the novel antibody-drug conjugate brentuximab, or high-dose autologous or allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. The programmed death-1 inhibitors nivolumab and pembrolizumab have both demonstrated high response rates and durable remissions in patients with relapsed/refractory HL. Alternate donor sources and reduced-intensity conditioning have made allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation a viable option for more patients. Future research will look to integrate novel strategies into earlier lines of therapy to improve the HL cure rate and minimize long-term treatment toxicities. CA Cancer J Clin 2018;68:116-132. © 2017 American Cancer Society.

Indexed as

Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsBiomarkers, TumorCombined Modality TherapyDiagnosis, DifferentialDiagnostic ImagingHematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationHodgkin DiseaseHumansNeoplasm StagingPrognosisRisk FactorsSurvival AnalysisTransplantation ConditioningBiomarkers, Tumorallogeneic stem cell transplantationantibody-drug conjugatebrentuximabHodgkin lymphomaimmunotherapypositron emission tomography (PET)-adapted therapyprogrammed death 1 (PD-1) inhibitor

Identifiers

PMID29194581
PMCPMC5842098
OpenAlexW2774391334

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