ArticleDrug design, development and therapy2019
Palliative chemotherapy with or without anti-EGFR therapy for de novo metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a propensity score-matching study.
Article in Drug design, development and therapy, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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.
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.
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Concurrent chemoradiotherapy combined with nimotuzumab in stage III-IVa nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a retrospective analysis.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2023Trial
- Immunotherapy combined with chemotherapy without locoregional radiotherapy inFrontiers in immunology · 2024Review
- Precision drugs for recurrent or metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma (Review).Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2023Review
- Cetuximab or nimotuzumab in combination with chemotherapy for treating recurrent/metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma: A meta‑analysis and systemic review.Oncology letters · 2023Article
- Leptomeningeal metastasis fromTranslational cancer research · 2022Article
- Using quantitative parameters derived from pretreatment dual-energy computed tomography to predict histopathologic features in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2022Article
- Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: The Role of the EGFR in Epstein-Barr Virus Infection.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Article
- Advances in targeted therapy mainly based on signal pathways for nasopharyngeal carcinoma.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2020Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectiveWe aimed to investigate the efficacy and safety of cetuximab (CTX) or nimotuzumab (NTZ) on the addition of palliative chemotherapy (PCT) in patients with de novo metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). MATERIALS AND
methodsFrom 2007 to 2016, 451 eligible patients with de novo metastatic NPC were enrolled in the study. With propensity score matching technique, we created a well-balanced cohort by matching patients who received CTX/NTZ plus PCT (62 patients) with those receiving PCT alone (248 patients) in a ratio of 1:4. The primary endpoint was overall survival (OS). All potential prognostic factors were involved in the multivariate analysis with the Cox regression hazards model. Kaplan-Meier curves were used to compare the survival status, and log-rank test to measure the significance.
resultsThe median follow-up time was 27.7 months (range, 1-126 months). No significant difference in survival was observed between the CTX/NTZ plus PCT group and PCT group. (3-year OS: 63.0% vs 58.1%;
conclusionThe efficacy of CTX/NTZ and PCT is comparable to single PCT treatment in terms of survival outcomes among de novo metastatic NPC patients. Moreover, the application of CTX exacerbated skin reactions and mucositis.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.