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ReviewSeminars in radiation oncology2021

The Radiobiology of Radiopharmaceuticals.

Zachary S Morris, Andrew Z Wang, Susan J Knox

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Review in Seminars in radiation oncology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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36citing papers in PubMed
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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

36 citing papers in PubMed.

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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.

Zachary S MorrisDepartment of Human Oncology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI.
Andrew Z WangDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
Susan J KnoxDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. Electronic address: sknox@stanford.edu.

Funding

Radionuclide Production and Radiochemistry Core Description CoreP01CA250972 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI ENGLE, JONATHAN W · 2020 to 2024
$12.5M
Immunomodulation of the Tumor Microenvironment with Molecular Targeted Radiotherapy to Facilitate an Adaptive Anti-Tumor Immune Response to Combined Modality ImmunotherapiesU01CA233102 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI MORRIS, ZACHARY SCOTT, WEICHERT, JAMEY P · 2018 to 2022
$4.0M
Combining Radiation and Tumor-specific AntIbody Therapies to Elicit in Situ Tumor VaccinationDP5OD024576 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI MORRIS, ZACHARY SCOTT · 2017 to 2021
$1.9M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA250972NCI NIH HHS U01 CA233102NIH HHS DP5 OD024576
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Radiopharmaceutical therapy or targeted radionuclide therapy (TRT) is a well-established class of cancer therapeutics that includes a growing number of FDA-approved drugs and a promising pipeline of experimental therapeutics. Radiobiology is fundamental to a mechanistic understanding of the therapeutic capacity of these agents and their potential toxicities. However, the field of radiobiology has historically focused on external beam radiation. Critical differences exist between TRT and external beam radiotherapy with respect to dosimetry, dose rate, linear energy transfer, duration of treatment delivery, fractionation, range, and target volume. These distinctions simultaneously make it difficult to extrapolate from the radiobiology of external beam radiation to that of TRT and pose considerable challenges for preclinical and clinical studies investigating TRT. Here, we discuss these challenges and explore the current understanding of the radiobiology of radiopharmaceuticals.

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NeoplasmsRadiopharmaceuticalsHumansLinear Energy TransferRadiobiologyRadiometryRadiopharmaceuticals

Identifiers

PMID33246632
PMCPMC7990047

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