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ReviewFrontiers in molecular biosciences2018

Molecular Diagnostics in Clinical Oncology.

Anna P Sokolenko, Evgeny N Imyanitov

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Review in Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
57citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.4field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

57 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 134 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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Anna P SokolenkoDepartment of Tumor Growth Biology, N.N. Petrov Institute of Oncology, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Evgeny N ImyanitovDepartment of Tumor Growth Biology, N.N. Petrov Institute of Oncology, St. Petersburg, Russia.
North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov · RUSaint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University · RU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There are multiple applications of molecular tests in clinical oncology. Mutation analysis is now routinely utilized for the diagnosis of hereditary cancer syndromes. Healthy carriers of cancer-predisposing mutations benefit from tight medical surveillance and various preventive interventions. Cancers caused by germ-line mutations often require significant modification of the treatment strategy. Personalized selection of cancer drugs based on the presence of actionable mutations has become an integral part of cancer therapy. Molecular tests underlie the administration of EGFR, BRAF, ALK, ROS1, PARP inhibitors as well as the use of some other cytotoxic and targeted drugs. Tumors almost always shed their fragments (single cells or their clusters, DNA, RNA, proteins) into various body fluids. So-called liquid biopsy, i.e., the analysis of circulating DNA or some other tumor-derived molecules, holds a great promise for non-invasive monitoring of cancer disease, analysis of drug-sensitizing mutations and early cancer detection. Some tumor- or tissue-specific mutations and expression markers can be efficiently utilized for the diagnosis of cancers of unknown primary origin (CUPs). Systematic cataloging of tumor molecular portraits is likely to uncover a multitude of novel medically relevant DNA- and RNA-based markers.

Indexed as

carcinoma of unknown primary sitehereditary cancer syndromesliquid biopsymolecular diagnosticspredictive markersreview

Identifiers

PMID30211169
PMCPMC6119963
OpenAlexW2889517321

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