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ReviewEmergency medicine international2022

The Use of Bacteria in Cancer Treatment: A Review from the Perspective of Cellular Microbiology.

Hilla Mills, Ronald Acquah, Nova Tang, Luke Cheung, Susanne Klenk, Ronald Glassen, Magali Pirson, Alain Albert, Duong Trinh Hoang, Thang Nguyen Van

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Review in Emergency medicine international, 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 It has been retracted, and should not be counted.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 6 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Hilla MillsDepartment of Medical Science, University for Development, Accra, Ghana.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2032-9279
Ronald AcquahDepartment of Medical Science, University for Development, Accra, Ghana.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5375-6106
Nova TangRD Lab, The Hospital Institute for Hebal Research, 50200 Toluca, Mexico.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5745-3663
Luke CheungRD Lab, The Hospital Institute for Hebal Research, 50200 Toluca, Mexico.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2723-5910
Susanne KlenkResearch Institution of Clinical Biomedicine, Hospital University Medical Centre, 89000 Ulm, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4971-5192
Ronald GlassenResearch Institution of Clinical Biomedicine, Hospital University Medical Centre, 89000 Ulm, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3195-5718
Magali PirsonIndustrial Research Group, International College of Science and Technology, Route de Lennik 800, CP 590, 1070 Brussels, Belgium.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8468-3184
Alain AlbertIndustrial Research Group, International College of Science and Technology, Route de Lennik 800, CP 590, 1070 Brussels, Belgium.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1012-7331
Duong Trinh HoangClinical Analysis Lab, Center of Bio-Medicine, Hanoi, Vietnam.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-4270
Thang Nguyen VanClinical Analysis Lab, Center of Bio-Medicine, Hanoi, Vietnam.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1628-0011
University for Development Studies · GHUniversity Hospital Ulm · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cellular microbiology, which is the interaction between harmful microbes and infected cells, is important in the determination of the bacterial infection processes and in the progression of data of different cellular mechanisms. The therapeutic role of bacteria has gained attention since the known methods such as radiation, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy have got drawbacks. Bacteria have demonstrated a favorable impact in treating cancer through eradication of tumors. Bacteria, in cancer treatment, have proven to be promising and have been shown in some of the previous work that it can successfully suppress the growth of tumors. In this paper, we analyzed the difficulties and settlement for using bacteria in cancer therapy as well the mechanisms in which bacteria works in order to achieve tumor eradication. Future works may focus on the use of bacteria along with other treatments in order to achieve effective tumor therapy.

Identifiers

PMID35978704
PMCPMC9377996
OpenAlexW4297816577

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