Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34675673›Full record

ArticleCancer management and research2021

A Practical Predictive Model Based on Ultrasound Imaging and Clinical Indices for Estimation of Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Patients with Breast Cancer.

Pingping Ye, Hongbo Duan, Zhenya Zhao, Shibo Fang

Open access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Cancer management and research, 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
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 52% 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, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Pingping YeDepartment of Ultrasonography, The Sixth Hospital of Ningbo City of Zhejiang Province, Ningbo, 315100, People's Republic of China.
Hongbo DuanDepartment of Ultrasonography, The Sixth Hospital of Ningbo City of Zhejiang Province, Ningbo, 315100, People's Republic of China.
Zhenya ZhaoDepartment of Imaging, The First Hospital of Ningbo City of Zhejiang Province, Ningbo, 315010, People's Republic of China.
Shibo FangDepartment of Ultrasonography, The Sixth Hospital of Ningbo City of Zhejiang Province, Ningbo, 315100, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0002-4625-436X
Ningbo No.6 Hospital · CNNingbo First Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeClinical responses of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) are associated with prognosis in patients with breast cancer. The selection of suitable variables for the prediction of clinical responses remains controversial. Herein, we developed a predictive model based on ultrasound imaging and clinical indices to identify patients most likely to benefit from NACT. PATIENTS AND

methodsWe recruited a total of 225 consecutive patients who underwent NACT followed by surgery and axillary lymph node dissection at the Sixth Hospital of Ning Bo City of Zhe Jiang Province between January 1, 2018, and March 31, 2021. All patients had been diagnosed with breast cancer following the clinical examination. First, we created a training cohort of patients who underwent NACT+surgery (N=180) to develop a nomogram. We then validated the performance of the nomogram in a validation cohort of patients who underwent NACT+ surgery (N=45). Multivariate logistic regression was then used to identify independent risk factors that were associated with the response to NACT; these were then incorporated into the nomogram.

resultsMultivariate logistic regression analysis identified several significant differences as to clinical responses of NACT, including neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), body mass index (BMI), pulsatility index (PI), resistance index (RI), blood flow, Ki67, histological type, molecular subtyping, and tumor size. The performance of the nomogram score exhibited a robust C-index of 0.89 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.83 to 0.95) in the training cohort and a high C-index of 0.87 (95% CI: 0.81 to 0.93) in the validation cohort. Clinical impact curves showed that the nomogram had a good predictive ability.

conclusionWe successfully established an accurate and optimized nomogram incorporated ultrasound imaging and clinical indices that could be used preoperatively to predict clinical responses of NACT. This model can be used to evaluate the risk of clinical responses to NACT and therefore facilitate the choice of personalized therapy.

Indexed as

breast cancerclinical responseNACTnomogram prediction

Identifiers

PMID34675673
PMCPMC8519354
OpenAlexW3205421231

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

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.