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ReviewCancers2025

Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Proton Beam Therapy Versus Photon Radiotherapy for Medulloblastoma: TRP-Medulloblastoma 2025.

Yinuo Li, Masashi Mizumoto, Yoshiko Oshiro, Kazushi Maruo, Masako Inaba, Takashi Saito, Sho Hosaka, Takashi Iizumi, Hiroko Fukushima, Ryoko Suzuki and 4 more

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Review in Cancers, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Article
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

14 authors.

Yinuo LiDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8576, Ibaraki, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-0423-2541
Masashi MizumotoDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8576, Ibaraki, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-7837-1301
Yoshiko OshiroDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8576, Ibaraki, Japan.
Kazushi MaruoDepartment of Biostatistics, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8576, Ibaraki, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-3093-0386
Masako InabaDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Tsukuba Hospital, Tsukuba 305-8576, Ibaraki, Japan.
Takashi SaitoDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8576, Ibaraki, Japan.ORCID 0009-0006-4663-5580
Sho HosakaDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Tsukuba Hospital, Tsukuba 305-8576, Ibaraki, Japan.
Takashi IizumiDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8576, Ibaraki, Japan.
Hiroko FukushimaDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Tsukuba Hospital, Tsukuba 305-8576, Ibaraki, Japan.
Ryoko SuzukiDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Tsukuba Hospital, Tsukuba 305-8576, Ibaraki, Japan.
Hazuki NittaDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8576, Ibaraki, Japan.
Shosei ShimizuDepartment of Pediatric Radiation Therapy Center, Hebei Yizhou Cancer Hospital, Zhuozhou 072750, China.
Kei NakaiDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8576, Ibaraki, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-0702-2304
Hideyuki SakuraiDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8576, Ibaraki, Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

meta-analysispediatric medulloblastomaphoton radiotherapyproton beam therapysurvival outcomes

Identifiers

PMID40647489
PMCPMC12249310

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