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ReviewLife (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Comparison of Anticancer Drug Toxicities: Paradigm Shift in Adverse Effect Profile.

Debasish Basak, Scott Arrighi, Yasenya Darwiche, Subrata Deb

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Review in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 101 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
101citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
10.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

101 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 191 citations in OpenAlex.

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41 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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 1 institution in 1 country.

Debasish BasakDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Larkin University, Miami, FL 33169, USA.
Scott ArrighiDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Larkin University, Miami, FL 33169, USA.
Yasenya DarwicheDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Larkin University, Miami, FL 33169, USA.
Subrata DebDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Larkin University, Miami, FL 33169, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3836-7820
Larkin University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The inception of cancer treatment with chemotherapeutics began in the 1940s with nitrogen mustards that were initially employed as weapons in World War II. Since then, treatment options for different malignancies have evolved over the period of last seventy years. Until the late 1990s, all the chemotherapeutic agents were small molecule chemicals with a highly nonspecific and severe toxicity spectrum. With the landmark approval of rituximab in 1997, a new horizon has opened up for numerous therapeutic antibodies in solid and hematological cancers. Although this transition to large molecules improved the survival and quality of life of cancer patients, this has also coincided with the change in adverse effect patterns. Typically, the anticancer agents are fraught with multifarious adverse effects that negatively impact different organs of cancer patients, which ultimately aggravate their sufferings. In contrast to the small molecules, anticancer antibodies are more targeted toward cancer signaling pathways and exhibit fewer side effects than traditional small molecule chemotherapy treatments. Nevertheless, the interference with the immune system triggers serious inflammation- and infection-related adverse effects. The differences in drug disposition and interaction with human basal pathways contribute to this paradigm shift in adverse effect profile. It is critical that healthcare team members gain a thorough insight of the adverse effect differences between the agents discovered during the last twenty-five years and before. In this review, we summarized the general mechanisms and adverse effects of small and large molecule anticancer drugs that would further our understanding on the toxicity patterns of chemotherapeutic regimens.

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adverse effectsantibodycytochrome P450large moleculessmall moleculestoxicities

Identifiers

PMID35054441
PMCPMC8777973
OpenAlexW4200044556

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