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ReviewTherapeutic advances in medical oncology2023

The current status of prostate cancer treatment and PSMA theranostics.

Motohide Uemura, Tadashi Watabe, Seiji Hoshi, Ryo Tanji, Kei Yaginuma, Yoshiyuki Kojima

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In one paragraph

Review in Therapeutic advances in medical oncology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
8.8field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Recommendations from the Galician Oncological Society and the Galician Society of Nuclear Medicine for the use ofClinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2025
    Guideline
  2. Diagnostic efficacy of [BMC cancer · 2024
    Pooled it
  3. Evaluation of [The Prostate · 2026
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  5. Preclinical Evaluation Study ofChemical & biomedical imaging · 2026
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  11. Hyperpolarized MRI theranostics in cancer.Frontiers in oncology · 2025
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  12. Frontiers in oncology · 2025
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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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Motohide UemuraDepartment of Urology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, 1, Hikarigaoka, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7263-7965
Tadashi WatabeDepartment of Nuclear Medicine and Tracer Kinetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Seiji HoshiDepartment of Urology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan.
Ryo TanjiDepartment of Urology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan.
Kei YaginumaDepartment of Urology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan.
Yoshiyuki KojimaDepartment of Urology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan.
Fukushima Medical University · JPThe University of Osaka · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the treatment of cancer, understanding the disease status, or accurate staging, is extremely important, and various imaging techniques are used. Computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging, and scintigrams are commonly used for solid tumors, and advances in these technologies have improved the accuracy of diagnosis. In the clinical practice of prostate cancer, CT and bone scans have been considered especially important for detecting metastases. Nowadays, CT and bone scans are called conventional methods because positron emission tomography (PET), especially prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)/PET, is extremely sensitive in detecting metastases. Advances in functional imaging, such as PET, are advancing the diagnosis of cancer by allowing information to be added to the morphological diagnosis. Furthermore, PSMA is known to be upregulated depending on the malignancy of the prostate cancer grade and resistance to therapy. Therefore, it is often highly expressed in castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) with poor prognosis, and its therapeutic application has been attempted for around two decades. PSMA theranostics refers to a type of cancer treatment that combines both diagnosis and therapy using a PSMA. The theranostic approach uses a radioactive substance attached to a molecule that targets PSMA protein on cancer cells. This molecule is injected into the patient's bloodstream and can be used for both imaging the cancer cells with a PET scan (PSMA PET imaging) and delivering radiation directly to the cancer cells (PSMA-targeted radioligand therapy), with the aim of minimizing damage to healthy tissue. Recently, in an international phase III trial, the impact of

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diagnosisprostate cancerPSMAradiotherapytheranostics

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PMID37424944
PMCPMC10328176
OpenAlexW4382995810

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