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SynthesisBreast (Edinburgh, Scotland)2021

Quality of life of therapies for hormone receptor positive advanced/metastatic breast cancer: Regulatory aspects and clinical impact in Europe.

L Moscetti, I Sperduti, A Frassoldati, A Musolino, C Nasso, A Toss, C Omarini, M Dominici, F Piacentini

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Synthesis in Breast (Edinburgh, Scotland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

9 authors.

L MoscettiDepartment of Oncology-Hematology, University Hospital of Modena, Modena, Italy; Gruppo Oncologico Italiano per la Ricerca Clinica (GOIRC), Italy. Electronic address: moscetti.luca@aou.mo.it.
I SperdutiDepartment of Bio-Statistics, RCCS Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Italy.
A FrassoldatiDepartment of Oncology, Ospedale Sant'Anna di Cona, Ferrara, Italy; Gruppo Oncologico Italiano per la Ricerca Clinica (GOIRC), Italy.
A MusolinoMedical Oncology and Breast Unit, University Hospital of Parma, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy; Gruppo Oncologico Italiano per la Ricerca Clinica (GOIRC), Italy.
C NassoDepartment of Oncology-Hematology, University Hospital of Modena, Modena, Italy; Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences for Children & Adults, University Hospital of Modena, Modena, Italy.
A TossDepartment of Oncology-Hematology, University Hospital of Modena, Modena, Italy; Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences for Children & Adults, University Hospital of Modena, Modena, Italy.
C OmariniDepartment of Oncology-Hematology, University Hospital of Modena, Modena, Italy; Gruppo Oncologico Italiano per la Ricerca Clinica (GOIRC), Italy.
M DominiciDivision of Medical Oncology, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences for Children & Adults, University Hospital of Modena, Modena, Italy.
F PiacentiniDivision of Medical Oncology, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences for Children & Adults, University Hospital of Modena, Modena, Italy; Gruppo Oncologico Italiano per la Ricerca Clinica (GOIRC), Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years, the number of trials incorporating health-related quality of life (HRQoL) data has increased. The impact of HRQoL on regulatory decision making in the European context and on clinical practice is not well established. We conducted an analysis of the role of QoL data extracted from the clinical trials of the drugs approved for hormone receptor positive/HER2-negative advanced/metastatic breast cancer (mBC). The results from the HRQoL were collected and a meta-analysis was performed to evaluate the impact of experimental drugs compared to standard treatments. The results showed a non-detrimental effect in HRQoL from the new treatments. As regards the approval process, from an examination of the European Medicine Agency (EMA) documents, HRQoL was reported nonextensively and contained and discussed in the European assessment reports (EPARs) for eleven trials in the approval process and cited in three cases in the EPARs and summary of medicinal product characteristics (SmPC). An effort should be made by all the stakeholders to increase the visibility of the HRQoL results in order to allow increased consideration in the approval process to make QoL data more easily and visibly available for the clinician and the patients. The evaluation should be reflected in the SmPC in order to increase the amount of information provided to the physician.

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Breast NeoplasmsQuality of LifeEuropeFemaleHormonesHumansHormones

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PMID34304064
PMCPMC8327134

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