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ReviewNature reviews. Clinical oncology2022

Systemic therapy for early-stage breast cancer: learning from the past to build the future.

Elisa Agostinetto, Joseph Gligorov, Martine Piccart

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Review in Nature reviews. Clinical oncology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 82 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
82citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
11.8field-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

82 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 131 citations in OpenAlex.

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22 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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Elisa AgostinettoInstitut Jules Bordet and l'Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-0295-7511
Joseph GligorovInstitut Universitaire de Cancérologie AP-HP Sorbonne Université, Inserm U938, Cours St-Paul, Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0002-9900-6386
Martine PiccartInstitut Jules Bordet and l'Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. martine.piccart@bordet.be.ORCID 0000-0001-9068-8504
Université Libre de Bruxelles · BEInserm · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The treatment of breast cancer has improved dramatically over the past century, from a strictly surgical approach to a coordinated one, including local and systemic therapies. Systemic therapies for early-stage disease were initially tested against observation or placebo only in adjuvant trials. Subsequent clinical trials focusing on treatment 'fine-tuning' had a marked increase in cohort size, duration and costs, leading to a growing interest in the neoadjuvant setting in the past decade. Neoadjuvant trial designs have the advantages of enabling the direct evaluation of treatment effects on tumour diameter and offer unique translational research opportunities through the comparative analysis of tumour biology before, during and after treatment. Current technologies enabling the identification of better predictive biomarkers are shaping the new era of (neo)adjuvant trials. An urgent need exists to reinforce collaboration between the pharmaceutical industry and academia to share data and thus establish large databases of biomarker data coupled with patient outcomes that are easily accessible to the scientific community. In this Review, we summarize the evolution of (neo)adjuvant trials from the pre-genomic to the post-genomic era and provide critical insights into how neoadjuvant studies are currently designed, discussing the need for better end points and treatment strategies that are more personalized, including in the post-neoadjuvant setting.

Indexed as

Breast NeoplasmsChemotherapy, AdjuvantFemaleHumansNeoadjuvant Therapy

Identifiers

PMID36253451
PMCPMC9575647
OpenAlexW4306411748

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