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ReviewSeminars in nuclear medicine2020

Dosimetry, Radiobiology and Synthetic Lethality: Radiopharmaceutical Therapy (RPT) With Alpha-Particle-Emitters.

George Sgouros

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In one paragraph

Review in Seminars in nuclear medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
34citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-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

34 citing papers in PubMed, 54 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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

George SgourosRadiological Physics Division, Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Electronic address: gsgouros@jhmi.edu.
Johns Hopkins University · US

Funding

Dose-Response in Radionuclide TherapyR01CA116477 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI HOBBS, ROBERT FRANCOIS, SGOUROS, GEORGE · 2006 to 2022
$7.1M
Combined Biologic and Radiopharmaceutical Therapy of Breast CancerR01CA187037 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI SGOUROS, GEORGE · 2015 to 2019
$2.4M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA116477NCI NIH HHS R01 CA187037
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As a treatment modality that is fundamentally different from other therapies against cancer, radiopharmaceutical therapy with alpha-particle emitters has drawn the attention of the therapy community and also the biopharmaceutical industry. Alpha-particles cause a preponderance of complex DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). This provides an opportunity to either enhance cell kill by using DNA DSB repair inhibitors or identify patients who are likely to be high responders to alpha-emitter RPT. The short-range and high potency of alpha-particles requires special dosimetry considerations. These are reviewed in light of recent updates to the phantoms and associated dosimetric quantities used for dosimetry calculations. A formalism for obtaining the necessary microscale pharmacokinetic information from patient nuclear medicine imaging is presented. Alpha-emitter based radiopharmaceutical therapy is an exciting cancer therapy modality that is being revisited. Further development of imaging and dosimetric methods specific to alpha-particle emitters, coupled with standardization of the methods and rigorous evidence that dosimetry applied to alphaRPT improves patient care are needed moving forward.

Indexed as

RadiobiologyAlpha ParticlesHumansRadiometryRadiopharmaceuticalsRadiopharmaceuticals

Identifiers

PMID32172797
PMCPMC7204891
OpenAlexW3008344257

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