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ArticleCancers2021

Personalized Medicine: Recent Progress in Cancer Therapy.

Ann Hoeben, Elbert A J Joosten, Marieke H J van den Beuken-van Everdingen

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Article in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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59citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

59 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  18. "I Became the Messenger Between the Hospitals": A Study on the Journeys of People With Cancer Using the Critical Incident Technique.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025
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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.

Ann HoebenDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, GROW-School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht University Medical Center, 6229 HX Maastricht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-0155-3005
Elbert A J JoostenDepartment of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, Maastricht University Medical Center, 6229 HX Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Marieke H J van den Beuken-van EverdingenCentre of Expertise for Palliative Care, Maastricht University Medical Centre, 6229 HX Maastricht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-2446-2862

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Personalized medicine (PM) or precision medicine in oncology is an emerging approach for tumor treatment and prevention that takes into account inter- and intra-tumor variability in genes, tumor (immune) environment, and lifestyle and morbidities of each person diagnosed with cancer [...].

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PMID33440729
PMCPMC7826530

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