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ReviewFrontiers in oncology2022

Neoadjuvant treatment in ovarian cancer: New perspectives, new challenges.

Adamantia Nikolaidi, Elena Fountzilas, Florentia Fostira, Amanda Psyrri, Helen Gogas, Christos Papadimitriou

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Review in Frontiers in oncology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed
5.4field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 31 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

6 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Adamantia NikolaidiOncology Department, Private General Maternity, Gynecological and Pediatric Clinic "MITERA" Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Elena FountzilasSecond Department of Medical Oncology, Euromedica General Clinic of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Florentia FostiraMolecular Diagnostics Laboratory, National Centre for Scientific Research 'Demokritos', Athens, Greece.
Amanda PsyrriSection of Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, "Attikon" Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece.
Helen GogasFirst Department of Medicine, 'Laiko' General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece.
Christos PapadimitriouOncology Unit, Second Department of Surgery, "Aretaieion" University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GREuropean University Cyprus · CYLaiko General Hospital of Athens · GRMitera Hospital · GRNational Centre of Scientific Research "Demokritos" · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ovarian cancer remains the leading cause of death from gynecological cancer. Survival is significantly related to the stage of the disease at diagnosis. Of quite importance is primary cytoreductive surgery, having as a goal to remove all visible tumor tissue, and is the standard primary treatment in combination with platinum-based chemotherapy for patients with advanced ovarian carcinoma. Neo-adjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) has been implemented mostly in treating advanced disease, with studies performed having numerous limitations. Data extrapolated from these studies have not shown inferiority survival of NACT, compared to primary debulking surgery. The role of NACT is of particular interest because of the intrinsic mechanisms that are involved in the process, which can be proven as therapeutic approaches with enormous potential. NACT increases immune infiltration and programmed death ligand-1 (PDL-1) expression, induces local immune activation, and can potentiate the immunogenicity of immune-exclude high grade serous ovarian tumors, while the combination of NACT with bevacizumab, PARP inhibitors or immunotherapy remains to be evaluated. This article summarizes all available data on studies implementing NACT in the treatment of ovarian cancer, focusing on clinical outcomes and study limitations. High mortality rates observed among ovarian cancer patients necessitates the identification of more effective treatments, along with biomarkers that will aid treatment individualization.

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bevacizumabimmunotherapyNACTovarian cancerPARPi

Identifiers

PMID35957909
PMCPMC9360510
OpenAlexW4287921765

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