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ReviewCancers2019

Personalized Radiation Therapy in Cancer Pain Management.

Ewa Sierko, Dominika Hempel, Konrad Zuzda, Marek Z Wojtukiewicz

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In one paragraph

Review in Cancers, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The efficacy and safety of zoledronic acid and strontium-89 in treating non-small cell lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2020
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  4. Cancer Pain: Radiotherapy as a Double-Edged Sword.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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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 1 institution in 1 country.

Ewa SierkoDepartment of Oncology, Medical University of Bialystok, 15-027 Białystok, Poland. ewa.sierko@iq.pl.ORCID 0000-0001-6661-3182
Dominika HempelDepartment of Oncology, Medical University of Bialystok, 15-027 Białystok, Poland. domhem@wp.pl.ORCID 0000-0003-0587-9790
Konrad ZuzdaStudent Scientific Association Affiliated with Department of Oncology, Medical University of Bialystok, 15-027 Bialystok, Poland. konrad.zuzda@outlook.com.
Marek Z WojtukiewiczDepartment of Oncology, Medical University of Bialystok, 15-027 Białystok, Poland. mzwojtukiewicz@gmail.com.
Medical University of Białystok · PL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The majority of advanced cancer patients suffer from pain, which severely deteriorates their quality of life. Apart from analgesics, bisphosphonates, and invasive methods of analgesic treatment (e.g., intraspinal and epidural analgesics or neurolytic blockades), radiation therapy plays an important role in pain alleviation. It is delivered to a growing primary tumour, lymph nodes, or distant metastatic sites, producing pain of various intensity. Currently, different regiments of radiation therapy methods and techniques and various radiation dose fractionations are incorporated into the clinical practice. These include palliative radiation therapy, conventional external beam radiation therapy, as well as modern techniques of intensity modulated radiation therapy, volumetrically modulated arch therapy, stereotactic radiosurgery or stereotactic body radiation therapy, and brachytherapy or radionuclide treatment (e.g., radium-223, strontium-89 for multiple painful osseous metastases). The review describes the possibilities and effectiveness of individual patient-tailored conventional and innovative radiation therapy approaches aiming at pain relief in cancer patients.

Indexed as

cancer painpain managementradiation therapy

Identifiers

PMID30893954
PMCPMC6468391
OpenAlexW2925331355

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Registered trials

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