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ReviewCancer research and treatment2021

Who Will Benefit from Charged-Particle Therapy?

Kyung Su Kim, Hong-Gyun Wu

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Review in Cancer research and treatment, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 17% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kyung Su KimDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Ewha Womans University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Hong-Gyun WuDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
Ewha Womans University · KRSeoul National University Hospital · KR

Funding

Ministry of Science and ICTNational Research Foundation of Korea 2019M2A2B4095126National Research Foundation of Korea 2019R1F1A1040583
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Charged-particle therapy (CPT) such as proton beam therapy (PBT) and carbon-ion radiotherapy (CIRT) exhibit substantial physical and biological advantages compared to conventional photon radiotherapy. As it can reduce the amount of radiation irradiated in the normal organ, CPT has been mainly applied to pediatric cancer and radioresistent tumors in the eloquent area. Although there is a possibility of greater benefits, high set-up cost and dearth of high level of clinical evidence hinder wide applications of CPT. This review aims to present recent clinical results of PBT and CIRT in selected diseases focusing on possible indications of CPT. We also discussed how clinical studies are conducted to increase the number of patients who can benefit from CPT despite its high cost.

Indexed as

Patient SelectionCost-Benefit AnalysisHeavy Ion RadiotherapyHumansIncidenceNeoplasmsOrgans at RiskPhotonsRadiation InjuriesTreatment OutcomeCarbon-ion radiotherapyCharged-particle therapyProton beam therapy

Identifiers

PMID34176253
PMCPMC8291184
OpenAlexW3175784533

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