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ArticleCancers2021

Modeling Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells Dynamics by Serological and Imaging Biomarkers to Explain the Different Responses to Sorafenib and Regorafenib.

Piero Colombatto, Coskun Ozer Demirtas, Gabriele Ricco, Luigi Civitano, Piero Boraschi, Paola Scalise, Daniela Cavallone, Filippo Oliveri, Veronica Romagnoli, Patrizia Bleve and 5 more

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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 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 34% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Piero ColombattoHepatology Unit, Pisa University Hospital, 56124 Pisa, Italy.
Coskun Ozer DemirtasGastroenterology Department, Marmara University, 34722 Istanbul, Turkey.ORCID 0000-0002-0004-2740
Gabriele RiccoHepatology Unit, Pisa University Hospital, 56124 Pisa, Italy.
Luigi CivitanoHepatology Unit, Pisa University Hospital, 56124 Pisa, Italy.
Piero BoraschiRadiodiagnostic Unit, Pisa University Hospital, 56124 Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5655-3921
Paola ScaliseRadiodiagnostic Unit, Pisa University Hospital, 56124 Pisa, Italy.
Daniela CavalloneHepatology Unit, Pisa University Hospital, 56124 Pisa, Italy.
Filippo OliveriHepatology Unit, Pisa University Hospital, 56124 Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9794-7203
Veronica RomagnoliHepatology Unit, Pisa University Hospital, 56124 Pisa, Italy.
Patrizia BleveHepatology Unit, Pisa University Hospital, 56124 Pisa, Italy.
Barbara CocoHepatology Unit, Pisa University Hospital, 56124 Pisa, Italy.
Antonio SalvatiHepatology Unit, Pisa University Hospital, 56124 Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9779-2731
Lucio UrbaniGeneral Surgery Unit, Pisa University Hospital, 56124 Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4075-6123
Ferruccio BoninoBiostructure and Bio-Imaging Institute of National Research Council of Italy, 56124 Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9942-0328
Maurizia Rossana BrunettoHepatology Unit, Pisa University Hospital, 56124 Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8364-9152
University of Pisa · ITMarmara University · TRNational Research Council · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In advanced HCC, tyrosine-kinase inhibitors obtain partial responses (PR) in some patients and complete responses (CR) in a few. Better understanding of the mechanism of response could be achieved by the radiomic approach combining digital imaging and serological biomarkers (α-fetoprotein, AFP and protein induced by vitamin K absence-II, PIVKA-II) kinetics. A physic-mathematical model was developed to investigate cancer cells and vasculature dynamics in three prototype patients receiving sorafenib and/or regorafenib and applied in seven others for validation. Overall four patients showed CR, two PR, two stable-disease (SD) and two progressive-disease (PD). The rate constant of cancer cells production was higher in PD than in PR-SD and CR (median: 0.398 vs. 0.325 vs. 0.316 C × day

Indexed as

AFPdigital imagingHCChepatocellular carcinomakineticsmathematical modelingPIVKA-IIregorafenibsorafenib

Identifiers

PMID33922938
PMCPMC8123288
OpenAlexW3159638362

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