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ArticleClinical case reports2021

Metastatic and locally aggressive BCC: Current treatment options.

Máire-Caitlín Casey, Roisín Pollock, Rachel H Enright, James Paul O'Neill, Neville Shine, Paul Sullivan, Fiachra T Martin, Barry O'Sullivan

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Article in Clinical case reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 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.

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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

8 authors.

Máire-Caitlín CaseyBeaumont Head & Neck Department Beaumont Hospital Dublin Ireland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1004-5670
Roisín PollockBeaumont Head & Neck Department Beaumont Hospital Dublin Ireland.
Rachel H EnrightBeaumont Head & Neck Department Beaumont Hospital Dublin Ireland.
James Paul O'NeillBeaumont Head & Neck Department Beaumont Hospital Dublin Ireland.
Neville ShineBeaumont Head & Neck Department Beaumont Hospital Dublin Ireland.
Paul SullivanBeaumont Head & Neck Department Beaumont Hospital Dublin Ireland.
Fiachra T MartinBeaumont Head & Neck Department Beaumont Hospital Dublin Ireland.
Barry O'SullivanBeaumont Head & Neck Department Beaumont Hospital Dublin Ireland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The treatment of locally advanced and metastatic BCC presents a significant clinical challenge. Treatment options have evolved recently to include the use of hedgehog inhibitors Vismodigib and Sonidigib and immunotherapy with Cemiplimab.

Indexed as

basal cell carcinomalocally aggressive BCCmetastatic BCC

Identifiers

PMID34691462
PMCPMC8517578

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