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GuidelineESMO open2024

Merkel-cell carcinoma: ESMO-EURACAN Clinical Practice Guideline for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up.

I Lugowska, J C Becker, P A Ascierto, M Veness, A Blom, C Lebbe, E Migliano, O Hamming-Vrieze, M Goebeler, H Kneitz and 9 more

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In one paragraph

Guideline in ESMO open, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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22citing 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

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

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  4. Radiotherapy for Merkel cell carcinoma: recommendations from the DEGRO Dermatooncology Working Group.Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] · 2026
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  10. [Merkel cell carcinoma: current surgical approaches and multidisciplinary treatment].Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social · 2026
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  15. Skin Cancer in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: A Review.American journal of clinical dermatology · 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

19 authors.

I LugowskaDepartment of Early Phase Clinical Trials, Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland.
J C BeckerDepartment of Translational Skin Cancer Research, German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), University Hospital of Essen, Essen; Department of Translational Skin Cancer Research, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
P A AsciertoDepartment of Melanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Development Therapeutics, Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS Fondazione G. Pascale, Naples, Italy.
M VenessSydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney; Department of Radiation Oncology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
A BlomCARADERM Network, Department of General and Oncologic Dermatology, Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, EA4340-BECCOH, AP-HP, Ambroise-Paré Hospital, Boulogne-Billancourt.
C LebbeUniversité de Paris Cite, Paris; Dermato-Oncology and CIC Department, AP-HP Hôpital Saint Louis, Paris; INSERM U976, Paris, France.
E MiglianoDepartment of Plastic and Regenerative Surgery, San Gallicano Dermatological Institute IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
O Hamming-VriezeDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
M GoebelerDepartment of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
H KneitzDepartment of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
P NathanDepartment of Medical Oncology, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Northwood, UK.
P RutkowskiDepartment of Soft Tissue/Bone Sarcoma and Melanoma, Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Warsaw.
M SlowinskaDepartment of Dermatology, Military Institute of Medicine-National Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland.
D SchadendorfDepartment of Dermatology, Westdeutsches Tumorzentrum (WTZ), University Hospital Essen, Essen; German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Partner Site Essen & NCT-West Campus Essen & University Alliance Ruhr, Research Center One Health, Essen, Germany.
J M PiulatsMedical Oncology Department, Institut Català d'Oncologia (ICO), Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), CIBEROnc, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
F PetrelliOncology Unit, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale (ASST) Bergamo Ovest, Treviglio, Italy.
A C J van AkkooiDepartment of Melanoma and Surgical Oncology, Melanoma Institute Australia, Sydney; Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney; Department of Melanoma and Surgical Oncology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
A BerrutiDepartment of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health, Medical Oncology Unit, University of Brescia, ASST Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy.
ESMO Guidelines Committee. Electronic address: clinicalguidelines@esmo.org

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Carcinoma, Merkel CellSkin NeoplasmsEuropeFollow-Up StudiesHumansNeoplasm Stagingclinical practice guidelinediagnosisfollow-upMerkel-cell carcinomatreatment recommendation

Identifiers

PMID38796285
PMCPMC11145756

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