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Transforming treatment paradigms: Focus on personalized medicine for high-grade serous ovarian cancer.

Pawel Kordowitzki, Britta Lange, Kevin M Elias, Marcia C Haigis, Sylvia Mechsner, Ioana Elena Braicu, Jalid Sehouli

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Review in CA: a cancer journal for clinicians. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
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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

30 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

7 authors.

Pawel KordowitzkiDepartment of Preclinical and Basic Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3344-5060
Britta LangeInstitute for Cultural Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Kevin M EliasSection of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology Institute, Taussig Cancer Institute, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1502-5553
Marcia C HaigisDepartment of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-2681
Sylvia MechsnerDepartment of Gynecology, Center of Oncological Surgery, European Competence Center for Ovarian Cancer, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1095-0048
Ioana Elena BraicuDepartment of Gynecology, Center of Oncological Surgery, European Competence Center for Ovarian Cancer, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5357-6001
Jalid SehouliDepartment of Gynecology, Center of Oncological Surgery, European Competence Center for Ovarian Cancer, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5963-6623

Funding

Nicolaus Copernicus University "Excellence Initiative-Research University" IDUB Program Mobility 75/2022
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) is the most common and aggressive subtype of ovarian cancer, accounting for approximately 70% of all ovarian cancer cases and contributing significantly to the high mortality rates associated with this disease. Because of the asymptomatic nature of early stage disease, most patients are diagnosed at advanced stages when the cancer has already spread into the abdominal cavity, requiring complex and intensive surgical and chemotherapeutic interventions followed by maintenance therapies. Although a minority of cases are associated with well defined genetic syndromes, specific risk factors and a clear etiology in many cases remain elusive. HGSOC tumors are characterized by a high frequency of somatic gene copy number alterations, often associated with defects in homologous recombination repair of DNA. All attempts to introduce an effective screening for HGSOC to date have been unsuccessful. This review elucidates the complexities surrounding HGSOC and encompasses its etiology, epidemiology, classification, pathogenesis, and the current array of treatment strategies. Understanding molecular underpinnings is crucial for the development of targeted therapies and personalized multimodal treatment approaches in centralized therapeutic structures. This review also examines the importance of the tumor microenvironment. In addition, the authors' objective is to underscore the critical importance of placing the patient's perspective and diversity at the forefront of therapeutic strategies, thereby fostering a genuinely participatory decision-making process and ultimately improving patient quality of life.

Indexed as

Cystadenocarcinoma, SerousOvarian NeoplasmsPrecision MedicineFemaleHumansNeoplasm GradingTumor Microenvironmentdiversityhigh‐grade serous ovarian cancerpersonalized medicinequality of lifetreatmenttumor microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID40252048
PMCPMC12432820

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