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ReviewIntegrative cancer therapies

Current Advancements and Novel Strategies in the Treatment of Metastatic Melanoma.

Siddhartha Sood, Rahul Jayachandiran, Siyaram Pandey

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Review in Integrative cancer therapies. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
32citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

32 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. A Review of Current and Pipeline Drugs for Treatment of Melanoma.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  20. The Combined Metabolically Oriented Effect of Fucoidan from the Brown AlgaInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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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 1 institution in 1 country.

Siddhartha SoodUniversity of Windsor, ON, Canada.
Rahul JayachandiranUniversity of Windsor, ON, Canada.
Siyaram PandeyUniversity of Windsor, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-7273-7154
University of Windsor · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer in the world with a growing incidence in North America. Contemporary treatments for melanoma include surgical resection, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. However, apart from resection in early melanoma, the prognosis of patients using these treatments is typically poor. In the past decade, there have been significant advancements in melanoma therapies. Immunotherapies such as ipilimumab and targeted therapies such as vemurafenib have emerged as a promising option for patients as seen in both scientific and clinical research. Furthermore, combination therapies are starting to be administered in the form of polychemotherapy, polyimmunotherapy, and biochemotherapy, of which some have shown promising outcomes in relative efficacy and safety due to their multiple targets. Alongside these treatments, new research has been conducted into the evidence-based use of natural health products (NHPs) and natural compounds (NCs) on melanoma which may provide a long-term and non-toxic form of complementary therapy. Nevertheless, there is a limited consolidation of the research conducted in emerging melanoma treatments which may be useful for researchers and clinicians. Thus, this review attempts to evaluate the therapeutic efficacy of current advancements in metastatic melanoma treatment by surveying new research into the molecular and cellular basis of treatments along with their clinical efficacy. In addition, this review aims to elucidate novel strategies that are currently being used and have the potential to be used in the future.

Indexed as

Antineoplastic AgentsMelanomaSkin NeoplasmsCombined Modality TherapyHumansImmunotherapyAntineoplastic Agentsanti-cancer vaccinebiochemotherapychemotherapycytokinesimmune checkpoint inhibitorimmunotherapymelanomanatural health productsoncolytic virus

Identifiers

PMID33719631
PMCPMC8743966
OpenAlexW3134877629

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