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ReviewFrontiers in oncology2018

Recent Advances in the Treatment of Breast Cancer.

Christy W S Tong, Mingxia Wu, William C S Cho, Kenneth K W To

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Review in Frontiers in oncology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 176 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
176citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
30.8field-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

176 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 396 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Christy W S TongFaculty of Medicine, School of Pharmacy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Mingxia WuFaculty of Medicine, School of Pharmacy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
William C S ChoDepartment of Clinical Oncology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Kenneth K W ToFaculty of Medicine, School of Pharmacy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Chinese University of Hong Kong · CNQueen Elizabeth Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Breast cancer (BC) is the most common malignancy in women. It is classified into a few major molecular subtypes according to hormone and growth factor receptor expression. Over the past few years, substantial advances have been made in the discovery of new drugs for treating BC. Improved understanding of the biologic heterogeneity of BC has allowed the development of more effective and individualized approach to treatment. In this review, we provide an update about the current treatment strategy and discuss the various emerging novel therapies for the major molecular subtypes of BC. A brief account of the clinical development of inhibitors of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase, cyclin-dependent kinases 4 and 6, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/protein kinase B/mammalian target of rapamycin pathway, histone deacetylation, multi-targeting tyrosine kinases, and immune checkpoints for personalized treatment of BC is included. However, no targeted drug has been approved for the most aggressive subtype-triple negative breast cancer (TNBC). Thus, we discuss the heterogeneity of TNBC and how molecular subtyping of TNBC may help drug discovery for this deadly disease. The emergence of drug resistance also poses threat to the successful development of targeted therapy in various molecular subtypes of BC. New clinical trials should incorporate advanced methods to identify changes induced by drug treatment, which may be associated with the upregulation of compensatory signaling pathways in drug resistant cancer cells.

Indexed as

breast cancercyclin-dependent kinases 4 and 6 inhibitorshormone receptorhuman epidermal growth factor receptor 2poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitorprogrammed cell death protein 1trastuzumabtriple negative breast cancer

Identifiers

PMID29963498
PMCPMC6010518
OpenAlexW2807500538

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