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ArticleCancer cell2021

Oncolytic virotherapy: Potentially a game-changing tumor treatment.

Tobias Kessler, Wolfgang Wick

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Article in Cancer cell, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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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

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Tobias KesslerDepartment of Neurology, University Clinic Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; German Cancer Center (DKTK) Clinical Cooperation Unit (CCU) Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Wolfgang WickDepartment of Neurology, University Clinic Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; German Cancer Center (DKTK) Clinical Cooperation Unit (CCU) Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany. Electronic address: wolfgang.wick@med.uni-heidelberg.de.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A two-center phase I trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows safety and feasibility of locally administered oncolytic herpes simplex virus-1 virus plus 5 Gy radiation for progressive pediatric high-grade gliomas. Patients seemed to have an unusually good clinical course and showed immune activation in post-treatment tissues.

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GliomaOncolytic VirotherapyOncolytic VirusesChildHumans

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