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ReviewTranslational cancer research2020

Palliative care access in the elderly metastatic breast cancer population: obstacles and opportunities.

Taylor MacDonald, Vignesh Krishnan, William Alexander Wilson

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Review in Translational cancer research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 50% 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Taylor MacDonaldUniversity of Pikeville College of Osteopathic Medicine, Pikeville, KY 41501, USA.
Vignesh KrishnanCapital University, Bexley, OH 43209, USA.
William Alexander WilsonColumbus NCI Community Oncology Research Program, Adena Regional Medical Center, Chillicothe, OH 45601, USA.
Adena Regional Medical Center · USCapital University · USUniversity of Pikeville · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metastatic breast cancer in the elderly encompasses a group of patients with worse cancer-specific survival and more barriers to care than their non-elderly counterparts. Metastatic breast cancer has a longer natural history than many other common metastatic solid tumors. Palliative care access in this group is thus affected by increased need from (I) more aggressive disease status with more severe symptoms, (II) increased barriers to care, (III) more patients living with the disease than other metastatic solid tumors, and (IV) increased incidence of breast cancer as compared to other solid tumors. This review outlines the rationale for outpatient palliative care, the needs for this specific population of cancer patients, and the barriers that the medical community faces in providing palliative care access for these patients.

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agingbreast neoplasmscancer care facilitiesPalliative care

Identifiers

PMID35117952
PMCPMC8798146
OpenAlexW2971011457

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