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ArticleCancers2019

Does Risk-Adapted Proton Beam Therapy Have a Role as a Complementary or Alternative Therapeutic Option for Hepatocellular Carcinoma?

Tae Hyun Kim, Joong-Won Park, Bo Hyun Kim, Hyunjung Kim, Sung Ho Moon, Sang Soo Kim, Sang Myung Woo, Young-Hwan Koh, Woo Jin Lee, Dae Yong Kim and 1 more

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Article in Cancers, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
22citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 38 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

11 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tae Hyun KimCenter for Liver Cancer, Research Institute and Hospital, National Cancer Center, Goyang 410-769, Korea. k2onco@ncc.re.kr.ORCID 0000-0001-8413-3385
Joong-Won ParkCenter for Liver Cancer, Research Institute and Hospital, National Cancer Center, Goyang 410-769, Korea. jwpark1@ncc.re.kr.
Bo Hyun KimCenter for Liver Cancer, Research Institute and Hospital, National Cancer Center, Goyang 410-769, Korea. bohkim@ncc.re.kr.
Hyunjung KimCenter for Proton Therapy, Research Institute and Hospital, National Cancer Center, Goyang 410-769, Korea. 12777@ncc.re.kr.
Sung Ho MoonCenter for Proton Therapy, Research Institute and Hospital, National Cancer Center, Goyang 410-769, Korea. shmoon@ncc.re.kr.
Sang Soo KimCenter for Proton Therapy, Research Institute and Hospital, National Cancer Center, Goyang 410-769, Korea. sangsookim@ncc.re.kr.
Sang Myung WooCenter for Liver Cancer, Research Institute and Hospital, National Cancer Center, Goyang 410-769, Korea. wsm@ncc.re.kr.ORCID 0000-0003-3786-4403
Young-Hwan KohCenter for Liver Cancer, Research Institute and Hospital, National Cancer Center, Goyang 410-769, Korea. mrikyh@ncc.re.kr.
Woo Jin LeeCenter for Liver Cancer, Research Institute and Hospital, National Cancer Center, Goyang 410-769, Korea. lwj@ncc.re.kr.
Dae Yong KimCenter for Proton Therapy, Research Institute and Hospital, National Cancer Center, Goyang 410-769, Korea. radiopia@ncc.re.kr.
Chang-Min KimCenter for Liver Cancer, Research Institute and Hospital, National Cancer Center, Goyang 410-769, Korea. cmkim53@ncc.re.kr.
National Cancer Center · KR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To evaluate the role of risk-adapted proton beam therapy (PBT) in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients, a total of 243 HCC patients receiving risk-adapted PBT with three dose-fractionation regimens (regimen A [

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hepatocellular carcinomaoverall survivalproton beam therapy

Identifiers

PMID30781391
PMCPMC6406298
OpenAlexW2913460376

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