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ArticleJournal of medical radiation sciences2021

Selecting patients for proton beam therapy.

Verity Ahern

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Article in Journal of medical radiation sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing 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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. International journal of particle therapy · 2025
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  4. A scoping review of patient selection methods for proton therapy.Journal of medical radiation sciences · 2022
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  5. Selecting patients for proton beam therapy.Journal of medical radiation sciences · 2021
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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.

Verity AhernDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Sydney West Radiation Oncology Network, Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre, Westmead, NSW, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8911-2727

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A transparent and equitable process for selecting patients who will benefit most from treatment at the Australian Bragg Centre for Proton Therapy as well as providing cost benefit for the investment made by government for this valuable resource, needs to be in place as soon as the Centre becomes operational, particularly for patients with more common cancers. Markov modelling is one method of patient selection and an example is provided in this issue of the Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences.

Indexed as

Patient SelectionProton TherapyHumansMarkov ChainsNeoplasmsMarkov modelpatient selectinproton beam therapy

Identifiers

PMID33259660
PMCPMC7890916

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