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ReviewEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2022

Simvastatin in the Treatment of Colorectal Cancer: A Review.

Hongliang Zang, Wei Yang, Xiaofeng Tian

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Review in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 36% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hongliang ZangDepartment of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.
Wei YangDepartment of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9820-5279
Xiaofeng TianDepartment of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2209-4493
Union Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Drug repositioning and drug reuse are the heated topics in the field of oncology in recent years. These two concepts refer to seeking effective drugs for cancer that are not originally intended to treat cancer. The survival benefits are then analyzed by combining the re-positioned drugs with conventional cancer treatment methods. Simvastatin is a clinically commonly used hyperlipidemia drug and exerts the effect of preventing cardiovascular diseases. Recent studies have found that simvastatin has great potential in the treatment of colorectal cancer, and a large number of clinical studies have used simvastatin as an adjuvant drug to help treat metastatic colorectal cancer.

Identifiers

PMID35873646
PMCPMC9303163
OpenAlexW4285494672

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