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ReviewWorld journal of gastrointestinal oncology2017

Neoadjuvant therapy for resectable pancreatic cancer.

Sheikh Hasibur Rahman, Robin Urquhart, Michele Molinari

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Review in World journal of gastrointestinal oncology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Neoadjuvant FOLFIRINOX Therapy Is Associated with Increased Effector T Cells and Reduced Suppressor Cells in Patients with Pancreatic Cancer.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2021
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  3. Usefulness ofCancer medicine · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Sheikh Hasibur RahmanDepartment of Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax B3H 2Y9, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Robin UrquhartDepartment of Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax B3H 2Y9, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Michele MolinariDepartment of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States. molinarim@upmc.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The use of neoadjuvant therapies has played a major role for borderline resectable and locally advanced pancreatic cancers (PCs). For this group of patients, preoperative chemotherapy or chemoradiation has increased the likelihood of surgery with negative resection margins and overall survival. On the other hand, for patients with resectable PC, the main rationale for neoadjuvant therapy is that the overall survival with current strategies is unsatisfactory. There is a consensus that we need new treatments to improve the overall survival and quality of life of patients with PC. However, without strong scientific evidence supporting the theoretical advantages of neoadjuvant therapies, these potential benefits might turn out not to be worth the risk of tumors progression while waiting for surgery. The focus of this paper is to provide the readers an overview of the most recent evidence on this subject.

Indexed as

Borderline resectableDecision analysisLocally advancedMeta-analysisNeoadjuvant chemoradiation therapyNeoadjuvant chemotherapyPancreatic adenocarcinomaPhase III trialPhase II trialPhase I trialRandomized controlled trial

Identifiers

PMID29290916
PMCPMC5740086

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