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ArticleCPT: pharmacometrics & systems pharmacology2018

Model-Based Evaluation of Radiation and Radiosensitizing Agents in Oncology.

Tim Cardilin, Joachim Almquist, Mats Jirstrand, Astrid Zimmermann, Samer El Bawab, Johan Gabrielsson

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Article in CPT: pharmacometrics & systems pharmacology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Tim CardilinFraunhofer-Chalmers Centre, Chalmers Science Park, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Joachim AlmquistFraunhofer-Chalmers Centre, Chalmers Science Park, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Mats JirstrandFraunhofer-Chalmers Centre, Chalmers Science Park, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-6612-8037
Astrid ZimmermannTranslation Innovation Platform Oncology, Merck, Darmstadt, Germany.
Samer El BawabGlobal Early Development - Quantitative Pharmacology and Drug Disposition, Quantitative Pharmacology, Merck, Darmstadt, Germany.
Johan GabrielssonDepartment of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
Fraunhofer Chalmers Research Centre for Industrial Mathematics · SEMerck (Germany) · DESwedish University of Agricultural Sciences · SE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Radiotherapy is one of the major therapy forms in oncology, and combination therapies involving radiation and chemical compounds can yield highly effective tumor eradication. In this paper, we develop a tumor growth inhibition model for combination therapy with radiation and radiosensitizing agents. Moreover, we extend previous analyses of drug combinations by introducing the tumor static exposure (TSE) curve. The TSE curve for radiation and radiosensitizer visualizes exposure combinations sufficient for tumor regression. The model and TSE analysis are then tested on xenograft data. The calibrated model indicates that the highest dose of combination therapy increases the time until tumor regrowth 10-fold. The TSE curve shows that with an average radiosensitizer concentration of 1.0 μg/mL the radiation dose can be decreased from 2.2 Gy to 0.7 Gy. Finally, we successfully predict the effect of a clinically relevant treatment schedule, which contributes to validating both the model and the TSE concept.

Indexed as

Models, BiologicalAnimalsCombined Modality TherapyHumansNeoplasmsPredictive Value of TestsRadiation-Sensitizing AgentsRadiotherapyXenograft Model Antitumor AssaysRadiation-Sensitizing Agents

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PMID29218836
PMCPMC5784742
OpenAlexW2773026796

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