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Trial reportCancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center

Overall Results for a National Program of Photodynamic Therapy for Basal Cell Carcinoma: A Multicenter Clinical Study to Bring New Techniques to Social Health Care.

Hilde Harb Buzzá, Lilian Tan Moriyama, José Dirceu Vollet-Filho, Natalia Mayumi Inada, Ana Paula da Silva, Mirian Denise Stringasci, Michelle Barreto Requena, Cintia Teles de Andrade, Kate C Blanco, Dora Patricia Ramirez and 3 more

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Trial report in Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 33 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

13 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Hilde Harb Buzzá1 São Carlos Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1885-5897
Lilian Tan Moriyama1 São Carlos Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
José Dirceu Vollet-Filho1 São Carlos Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
Natalia Mayumi Inada1 São Carlos Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
Ana Paula da Silva1 São Carlos Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
Mirian Denise Stringasci1 São Carlos Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
Michelle Barreto Requena1 São Carlos Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
Cintia Teles de Andrade2 Instituto Federal de Alagoas, Campus Piranhas, Brazil.
Kate C Blanco1 São Carlos Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
Dora Patricia Ramirez1 São Carlos Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
Cristina Kurachi1 São Carlos Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
Ana Gabriela Salvio3 Skin Department, Amaral Carvalho Foundation, Jaú, Brazil.
Vanderlei S Bagnato1 São Carlos Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
Universidade de São Paulo · BRHospital Amaral Carvalho · BRInstituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Alagoas · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Along the past years, a national program to implement photodynamic therapy (PDT) for nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) was performed over the Brazilian territory. Using a strategy involving companies, national bank, and medical partners, equipment, medication, and protocols were tested in a multicenter study. With results collected over 6 years, we could reach a great deal of advances concerning the use of PDT for skin cancer. We present the overall reached results of the program and discuss several aspects about it, including public politics of treatment. A discussion about advantages of this technique within conditions of health care is placed, comparing PDT with surgery, including an analysis about the implementation of PDT in countries in development as Brazil, considering not only technical but social aspects, as the distribution of medical doctor in the Brazilian territory. The program resulted in a huge dissemination of PDT in Brazil and many countries in Latin America, in a partnership among public politics, universities, companies, and hospitals and clinics and in the insertion of national technologies as option to treat NMSC. Consequence of the program is mainly the continuation of the use of PDT in Brazil and many countries in Latin America.

Indexed as

National Health ProgramsPhotochemotherapyProgram EvaluationAdultAgedAged, 80 and overAge DistributionBasal Cell CarcinomaBrazilFemaleHumansIncidenceMaleMiddle AgedSkin NeoplasmsTreatment Outcomebasal cell carcinomaBCCnonmelanoma skin cancerPDTphotodynamic therapy

Identifiers

PMID31242758
PMCPMC6598334
OpenAlexW2955671989

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