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ReviewPharmacological reviews2019

Challenges and Opportunities for Childhood Cancer Drug Development.

Peter J Houghton, Raushan T Kurmasheva

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Review in Pharmacological reviews, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed
4.0field-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.

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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. [Application of "kindergarten effect" in radiotherapy for children with tumor aged 3-5 years].Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics · 2022
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  2. What Matters Most: The Top 10 Child and Adolescent Cancer Research Priorities in Australia.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026
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  5. Targeting WEE1 Kinase for Breast Cancer Therapeutics: An Update.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  16. Nanomedicine Therapies for Pediatric Diseases.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Nanomedicine and nanobiotechnology
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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Peter J HoughtonGreehey Children's Cancer Research Institute, University of Texas Health, San Antonio, Texas HoughtonP@uthscsa.edu.
Raushan T KurmashevaGreehey Children's Cancer Research Institute, University of Texas Health, San Antonio, Texas.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · US

Funding

XENOGRAFT STUDIESP01CA023099 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI HENDERSHOT, LINDA M · 1985 to 2011
$22.4M
XENOGRAFT AND CELL LINE COREP01CA165995 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI LONDON, CHERYL A · 2013 to 2017
$7.9M
RAPAMYCIN INDUCED SELECTIVE APOPTOSIS IN MALIGNANT CELLSR01CA077776 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI HOUGHTON, PETER J · 1999 to 2012
$3.5M
Pediatric Preclinical Testing Consortium: Research Programs Non-CNS (U01)U01CA199297 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI HOUGHTON, PETER J · 2015 to 2021
$3.5M
A Testing Program to Identify Novel Agents for Treatment of Pediatric and AYA High-Risk Sarcoma, Kidney and Liver CancerU01CA263981 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI Raushan Kurmasheva · 2021 to 2026
$3.2M
Therapeutic Exploitation of Mutant BRAF for AstrocytomaR01CA169368 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI HOUGHTON, PETER J · 2013 to 2017
$1.6M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA023099NCI NIH HHS P01 CA165995NCI NIH HHS R01 CA077776NCI NIH HHS R01 CA169368NCI NIH HHS U01 CA199297NCI NIH HHS U01 CA263981
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer in children is rare with approximately 15,700 new cases diagnosed in the United States annually. Through use of multimodality therapy (surgery, radiation therapy, and aggressive chemotherapy), 70% of patients will be "cured" of their disease, and 5-year event-free survival exceeds 80%. However, for patients surviving their malignancy, therapy-related long-term adverse effects are severe, with an estimated 50% having chronic life-threatening toxicities related to therapy in their fourth or fifth decade of life. While overall intensive therapy with cytotoxic agents continues to reduce cancer-related mortality, new understanding of the molecular etiology of many childhood cancers offers an opportunity to redirect efforts to develop effective, less genotoxic therapeutic options, including agents that target oncogenic drivers directly, and the potential for use of agents that target the tumor microenvironment and immune-directed therapies. However, for many high-risk cancers, significant challenges remain.

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AnimalsAntineoplastic AgentsChildDrug DevelopmentHumansNeoplasmsTumor MicroenvironmentAntineoplastic Agents

Identifiers

PMID31558580
PMCPMC6768308
OpenAlexW2975566935

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