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ReviewCancers2023

From Localized Mild Hyperthermia to Improved Tumor Oxygenation: Physiological Mechanisms Critically Involved in Oncologic Thermo-Radio-Immunotherapy.

Peter Vaupel, Helmut Piazena, Markus Notter, Andreas R Thomsen, Anca-L Grosu, Felix Scholkmann, Alan Graham Pockley, Gabriele Multhoff

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Review in Cancers, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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37citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

8 authors.

Peter VaupelDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Center, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4238-3188
Helmut PiazenaDepartment of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Charité-University Medicine, Cooperative Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3612-4622
Markus NotterDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Lindenhofspital Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-6084-8340
Andreas R ThomsenDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Center, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0163-8677
Anca-L GrosuDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Center, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.
Felix ScholkmannBiomedical Optics Research Laboratory, Department of Neonatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1748-4852
Alan Graham PockleyJohn van Geest Cancer Research Centre, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham NG11 8NS, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9593-6431
Gabriele MulthoffTranslaTUM-Central Institute for Translational Cancer Research, Technische Universität München (TUM), 81675 Munich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2616-3137

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

(1) Background: Mild hyperthermia (mHT, 39-42 °C) is a potent cancer treatment modality when delivered in conjunction with radiotherapy. mHT triggers a series of therapeutically relevant biological mechanisms, e.g., it can act as a radiosensitizer by improving tumor oxygenation, the latter generally believed to be the commensurate result of increased blood flow, and it can positively modulate protective anticancer immune responses. However, the extent and kinetics of tumor blood flow (TBF) changes and tumor oxygenation are variable during and after the application of mHT. The interpretation of these spatiotemporal heterogeneities is currently not yet fully clarified. (2) Aim and methods: We have undertaken a systematic literature review and herein provide a comprehensive insight into the potential impact of mHT on the clinical benefits of therapeutic modalities such as radio- and immuno-therapy. (3) Results: mHT-induced increases in TBF are multifactorial and differ both spatially and with time. In the

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enhanced tumor blood flowimmuno-oncologyimproved tumor oxygenationmild hyperthermiaphysiological responsespleiotropic hyperthermia effectsradio-oncologysustained effectstransient changes

Identifiers

PMID36900190
PMCPMC10000497

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