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ArticleJournal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine2018

The Utility of PET/CT in the Planning of External Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer.

Jeremie Calais, Minsong Cao, Nicholas G Nickols

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Article in Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing papers in PubMed
5.9field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

31 citing papers in PubMed, 57 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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jeremie CalaisAhmanson Translational Imaging Division, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, UCLA, Los Angeles, California.
Minsong CaoDepartment of Radiation Oncology, UCLA, Los Angeles, California; and.
Nicholas G NickolsDepartment of Radiation Oncology, UCLA, Los Angeles, California; and nnickols@mednet.ucla.edu.
UCLA Health · USVA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Radiotherapy and radical prostatectomy are the definitive treatment options for patients with localized prostate cancer. A rising level of prostate-specific antigen after radical prostatectomy indicates prostate cancer recurrence, and these patients may still be cured with salvage radiotherapy. To maximize chance for cure, the irradiated volumes should completely encompass the extent of disease. Therefore, accurate estimation of the location of disease is critical for radiotherapy planning in both the definitive and the salvage settings. Current first-line imaging for prostate cancer has limited sensitivity for detection of disease both at initial staging and at biochemical recurrence. Integration of PET into routine evaluation of prostate cancer patients may improve both staging accuracy and radiotherapy planning.

Indexed as

Positron Emission Tomography Computed TomographyFluorodeoxyglucose F18HumansMaleNeoplasm MetastasisNeoplasm StagingProstatic NeoplasmsRadiotherapy Planning, Computer-AssistedFluorodeoxyglucose F18PET/CTprostate cancerPSMAradiation

Identifiers

PMID29301928
PMCPMC6910632
OpenAlexW2782070043

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