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ReviewCancers2020

Molecular Insights and Emerging Strategies for Treatment of Metastatic Uveal Melanoma.

Fabiana Mallone, Marta Sacchetti, Alessandro Lambiase, Antonietta Moramarco

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Review in Cancers, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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27citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.0field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 40 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Ocular Melanoma: A Comprehensive Review with a Focus on Molecular Biology.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  16. Cancers · 2022
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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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Fabiana MalloneDepartment of Sense Organs, Sapienza University of Rome, 00161 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6274-015X
Marta SacchettiDepartment of Sense Organs, Sapienza University of Rome, 00161 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5569-778X
Alessandro LambiaseDepartment of Sense Organs, Sapienza University of Rome, 00161 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8974-991X
Antonietta MoramarcoDepartment of Sense Organs, Sapienza University of Rome, 00161 Rome, Italy.
Sapienza University of Rome · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Uveal melanoma (UM) is the most common intraocular cancer. In recent decades, major advances have been achieved in the diagnosis and prognosis of UM allowing for tailored treatments. However, nearly 50% of patients still develop metastatic disease with survival rates of less than 1 year. There is currently no standard of adjuvant and metastatic treatment in UM, and available therapies are ineffective resulting from cutaneous melanoma protocols. Advances and novel treatment options including liver-directed therapies, immunotherapy, and targeted-therapy have been investigated in UM-dedicated clinical trials on single compounds or combinational therapies, with promising results. Therapies aimed at prolonging or targeting metastatic tumor dormancy provided encouraging results in other cancers, and need to be explored in UM. In this review, the latest progress in the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of UM in adjuvant and metastatic settings are discussed. In addition, novel insights into tumor genetics, biology and immunology, and the mechanisms underlying metastatic dormancy are discussed. As evident from the numerous studies discussed in this review, the increasing knowledge of this disease and the promising results from testing of novel individualized therapies could offer future perspectives for translating in clinical use.

Indexed as

adjuvant therapycombined therapyimmunotherapyliver-directed-therapiesmetastatic dormancymetastatic therapymetastatic uveal melanoma (mUM)prognosticationtargeted-therapyuveal melanoma (UM)

Identifiers

PMID32992823
PMCPMC7600598
OpenAlexW3089211073

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