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ArticleSN comprehensive clinical medicine2020

COVID-19, Brachytherapy, and Gynecologic Cancers: a Moroccan Experience.

Sanaa ElMajjaoui, Nabil Ismaili, Noureddine Benjaafar

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Article in SN comprehensive clinical medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 29% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Gynecologic radiation therapy in low and middle income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.International journal of gynecological cancer : official journal of the International Gynecological Cancer Society · 2022
    Review
  3. Radiotherapy during the COVID-19: a review about management and treatment strategies.Reports of practical oncology and radiotherapy : journal of Greatpoland Cancer Center in Poznan and Polish Society of Radiation Oncology · 2022
    Article
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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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sanaa ElMajjaouiDepartment of Radiotherapy, National Institute of Oncology, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco.ORCID 0000-0003-3736-998X
Nabil IsmailiDepartment of Medical Oncology, Cheick Khalifa International University Hospital, Mohammed VI University of Health Sciences (UM6SS), Casablanca, Morocco.
Noureddine BenjaafarDepartment of Radiotherapy, National Institute of Oncology, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco.
Mohammed V University · MAUniversité Mohammed VI des Sciences et de la Santé · MA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The treatment of gynecological cancers is the main activity of brachytherapy units. However, during COVID-19 pandemic, precautions should be done in order to reduce the spread of the virus while maintaining all chances to recovery for all patients (Radiother Oncol 148, 227-228, 2020). Despite the extent of the pandemic in our country, limited data are available to establish recommendations with a sufficient level of evidence (Radiother Oncol 148, 227-228, 2020). More recently, the American Brachytherapy Society published some clarifications in this regard and international expert consensus recommendations of radiation therapy for gynecologic malignancies during the COVID-19 pandemic were published (https://www.americanbrachytherapy.org/about-abs/abs-news/abs-statement-on-coronavirus/, Gynecol Oncol 15, 2020). In this commentary, we sought to share the procedures adopted for the management of gynecological cancer patients during COVID-19 pandemic in our brachytherapy unit.

Indexed as

BrachytherapyCervical cancerCOVID-19Endometrial cancerVaginal cancer

Identifiers

PMID32838167
PMCPMC7360376
OpenAlexW3042441700

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