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ReviewAmerican journal of clinical and experimental urology2019

Cytoreductive prostatectomy in metastatic prostate cancer: current knowledge and future directions.

Charles F Polotti, Joshua A Sterling, Isaac Y Kim

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Review in American journal of clinical and experimental urology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 28% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Charles F PolottiSection of Urologic Oncology, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Division of Urology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
Joshua A SterlingSection of Urologic Oncology, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Division of Urology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
Isaac Y KimSection of Urologic Oncology, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Division of Urology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The current standard of care for patients with metastatic prostate cancer is systemic androgen deprivation therapy, and addressing the primary tumor has been reserved for patients with localized disease. However, emerging data has called into question the universality of this paradigm. Recent studies have found treatment of the primary tumor in patients with metastatic disease not only can provide the patient with symptomatic relief but also may provide a survival benefit. The potential biological and clinical benefit for cytoreductive surgery has been also been suggested in several translational models. Thus, PubMed electronic database was queried for publications on patients with metastatic prostate cancer who underwent cytoreductive prostatectomy, using keywords including: cytoreductive prostatectomy, radical prostatectomy, metastatic prostate cancer. In this review we examine literature regarding feasibility of cytoreductive prostatectomy, oncologic outcomes, and future directions including the ongoing clinical trials in this arena. While the retrospective data is encouraging, results of these ongoing prospective trials are needed before this option is offered to patients as a reasonably safe treatment with demonstrated benefits to survival and quality of life.

Indexed as

cancer survivalcytoreductive radical prostatectomyfeasibilitymetastatic prostate cancerProstate cancersafety

Identifiers

PMID31139702
PMCPMC6526356
OpenAlexW2981713240

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Registered trials

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