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ReviewNature reviews. Urology2019

Merging new-age biomarkers and nanodiagnostics for precision prostate cancer management.

Kevin M Koo, Paul N Mainwaring, Scott A Tomlins, Matt Trau

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Review in Nature reviews. Urology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

35 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  5. Prostate cancer theragnostics biomarkers: An update.Investigative and clinical urology · 2024
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  10. Biomarkers for Prostate Cancer: From Diagnosis to Treatment.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  12. Advances of medical nanorobots for future cancer treatments.Journal of hematology & oncology · 2023
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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.

Kevin M KooCentre for Personalized Nanomedicine, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2652-1985
Paul N MainwaringCentre for Personalized Nanomedicine, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. drpaulmainwaring@gmail.com.
Scott A TomlinsDepartment of Pathology, Department of Urology, Michigan Centre for Translational Pathology, Comprehensive Cancer Centre, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. tomlinss@med.umich.edu.
Matt TrauCentre for Personalized Nanomedicine, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. m.trau@uq.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5516-1280

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The accurate identification and stratified treatment of clinically significant early-stage prostate cancer have been ongoing concerns since the outcomes of large international prostate cancer screening trials were reported. The controversy surrounding clinical and cost benefits of prostate cancer screening has highlighted the lack of strategies for discriminating high-risk disease (that requires early treatment) from low-risk disease (that could be managed using watchful waiting or active surveillance). Advances in molecular subtyping and multiomics nanotechnology-based prostate cancer risk delineation can enable refinement of prostate cancer molecular taxonomy into clinically meaningful and treatable subtypes. Furthermore, the presence of intertumoural and intratumoural heterogeneity in prostate cancer warrants the development of novel nanodiagnostic technologies to identify clinically significant prostate cancer in a rapid, cost-effective and accurate manner. Circulating and urinary next-generation prostate cancer biomarkers for disease molecular subtyping and the newest complementary nanodiagnostic platforms for enhanced biomarker detection are promising tools for precision prostate cancer management. However, challenges in merging both aspects and clinical translation still need to be overcome.

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NanotechnologyBiomarkers, TumorHumansMaleMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesNanoparticlesPrecision MedicineProstate-Specific AntigenProstatic NeoplasmsBiomarkers, TumorProstate-Specific Antigen

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