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ReviewMolecular cancer therapeutics2024

Polyploidy in Cancer: Causal Mechanisms, Cancer-Specific Consequences, and Emerging Treatments.

Patrick J Conway, Jonathan Dao, Dmytro Kovalskyy, Daruka Mahadevan, Eloise Dray

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Review in Molecular cancer therapeutics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed
4.0field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Epithelial cell fusion is required for tissue repair following UV-A irradiation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  3. Growth under pressure: The pros and cons of polyploidy induced by stress.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  9. Polyploidy and Senescence of Cancer Cells: Impact of Cell Fusion.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026
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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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Patrick J ConwayMays Cancer Center, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas.ORCID 0000-0003-2835-5834
Jonathan DaoMays Cancer Center, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas.ORCID 0009-0001-5582-1661
Dmytro KovalskyyGreehey Children's Cancer Research Institute, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas.ORCID 0000-0002-1143-8724
Daruka MahadevanMays Cancer Center, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas.ORCID 0000-0002-7129-5593
Eloise DrayLong School of Medicine, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas.ORCID 0000-0001-6793-9838
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · US

Funding

TISSUE CULTURE---COREP30CA054174 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI Lei Zheng · 1991 to 2026
$59.1M
Understanding post translational modifiers in DNA damage repairR21ES035997 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI DRAY, ELOISE · 2024 to 2025
$426k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA054174NIEHS NIH HHS R21 ES035997
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Drug resistance is the major determinant for metastatic disease and fatalities, across all cancers. Depending on the tissue of origin and the therapeutic course, a variety of biological mechanisms can support and sustain drug resistance. Although genetic mutations and gene silencing through epigenetic mechanisms are major culprits in targeted therapy, drug efflux and polyploidization are more global mechanisms that prevail in a broad range of pathologies, in response to a variety of treatments. There is an unmet need to identify patients at risk for polyploidy, understand the mechanisms underlying polyploidization, and to develop strategies to predict, limit, and reverse polyploidy thus enhancing efficacy of standard-of-care therapy that improve better outcomes. This literature review provides an overview of polyploidy in cancer and offers perspective on patient monitoring and actionable therapy.

Indexed as

NeoplasmsPolyploidyAnimalsDrug Resistance, NeoplasmHumans

Identifiers

PMID38315992
PMCPMC11174144
OpenAlexW4391527525

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Registered trials

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