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ArticleBMC complementary medicine and therapies2024

Physical activity and psychological support can replace "another pill" to manage cancer-related symptoms in children and adolescents diagnosed with cancer.

Maxime Caru, Ariane Levesque, Smita Dandekar, Kathryn H Schmitz

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Article in BMC complementary medicine and therapies, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Maxime Caru *Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Penn State College of Medicine, 500 University Drive, Hershey, PA, USA. mcaru@pennstatehealth.psu.edu.
Ariane Levesque *Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Smita DandekarDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Penn State College of Medicine, 500 University Drive, Hershey, PA, USA.
Kathryn H SchmitzDivision of Hematology and Oncology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center · USUniversité de Montréal · CAUniversity of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The management of cancer-related symptoms with nonpharmacological treatment has been proven effective, but more studies are still required to strengthen the scientific evidence. Given the state of the evidence, one might wonder about the perceptions of pediatric oncology experts, healthcare providers and CAM providers regarding the use of supportive care in pediatric oncology. Related to this important question, Mora et al. recently published an exploratory qualitative study entitled "Supportive care for cancer-related symptoms in pediatric oncology: a qualitative study among healthcare providers" in the BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies Journal. The data generated by the authors provided new insights and perspectives to the current literature. However, their findings must be put into perspective to increase the scope of the original article and to highlight that physical activity and psychosocial interventions are powerful nonpharmacological interventions to manage cancer-related symptoms.

Indexed as

ExerciseNeoplasmsAdolescentChildComplementary TherapiesHumans

Identifiers

PMID38649955
PMCPMC11036600
OpenAlexW4395000389

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