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ReviewCancers2021

Bridging the Gaps between Circulating Tumor Cells and DNA Methylation in Prostate Cancer.

Bianca C T Flores, Margareta P Correia, José G Rodríguez, Rui Henrique, Carmen Jerónimo

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Review in Cancers, 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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Bianca C T FloresCancer Biology and Epigenetics Group, Research Center of IPO Porto (CI-IPOP)/RISE@CI-IPOP (Health Research Network), Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO Porto)/Porto Comprehensive Cancer Center (Porto.CCC), Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-6490-6309
Margareta P CorreiaCancer Biology and Epigenetics Group, Research Center of IPO Porto (CI-IPOP)/RISE@CI-IPOP (Health Research Network), Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO Porto)/Porto Comprehensive Cancer Center (Porto.CCC), Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0003-4378-0820
José G RodríguezCirculating Tumor Cells Group, A.C.Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo 01508-010, Brazil.
Rui HenriqueCancer Biology and Epigenetics Group, Research Center of IPO Porto (CI-IPOP)/RISE@CI-IPOP (Health Research Network), Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO Porto)/Porto Comprehensive Cancer Center (Porto.CCC), Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0003-3171-4666
Carmen JerónimoCancer Biology and Epigenetics Group, Research Center of IPO Porto (CI-IPOP)/RISE@CI-IPOP (Health Research Network), Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO Porto)/Porto Comprehensive Cancer Center (Porto.CCC), Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0003-4186-5345

Funding

European Regional Development Fund NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-072678Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia CEECINST/00091/2018
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prostate cancer is the second most common male malignancy, with a highly variable clinical presentation and outcome. Therefore, diagnosis, prognostication, and management remain a challenge, as available clinical, imaging, and pathological parameters provide limited risk assessment. Thus, many biomarkers are under study to fill this critical gap, some of them based on epigenetic aberrations that might be detected in liquid biopsies. Herein, we provide a critical review of published data on the usefulness of DNA methylation and circulating tumor cells in diagnosis and treatment decisions in cases of prostate cancer, underlining key aspects and discussing the importance of these advances to the improvement of the management of prostate cancer patients. Using minimally invasive blood tests, the detection of highly specific biomarkers might be crucial for making therapeutic decisions, determining response to specific treatments, and allowing early diagnosis.

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circulating tumor cellsDNA methylationprostate cancer

Identifiers

PMID34439363
PMCPMC8391503

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