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ArticleCancer cell2021

Learning from BISCAY: The future of biomarker-based trial design in bladder cancer.

Luis Meza, Nicholas J Salgia, Kalen C Patel, Sumanta K Pal

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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 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 37% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Towards biomarker-driven therapies for urothelial carcinoma.Nature reviews. Clinical oncology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Luis MezaDepartment of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, CA, USA.
Nicholas J SalgiaDepartment of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, CA, USA; Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.
Kalen C PatelDepartment of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, CA, USA.
Sumanta K PalDepartment of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, CA, USA. Electronic address: spal@coh.org.
City of Hope · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A recent article in Nature Medicine explored the combination of immunotherapy with multiple distinct targeted therapies in patients with metastatic urothelial cancer, employing a biomarker-driven approach. Herein, we discuss the merits of this ambitious study and highlight the need for larger biomarker-based randomized trials to arrive at definitive clinical conclusions.

Indexed as

Carcinoma, Transitional CellUrinary Bladder NeoplasmsBiomarkersForecastingHumansImmunotherapyBiomarkers

Identifiers

PMID34256907
OpenAlexW3181122331

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.