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ReviewCancers2025

Advances in Vulvar Cancer: A Radiation Oncology Perspective.

Diandra N Ayala-Peacock, Manjeet Chadha

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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.

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1citing 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

1 citing paper 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

2 authors.

Diandra N Ayala-PeacockDuke University Medical Center Department of Radiation Oncology, Durham, NC 27710, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8032-4499
Manjeet ChadhaDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite being a rare malignancy, there have been several changes in the management paradigm for vulvar cancer. This review of the literature was undertaken to highlight key areas of treatment innovation and progress, including efforts to de-escalate morbid surgical resection as well as perform dose escalation of radiotherapy and incorporation of modern systemic agents to achieve better oncologic outcomes. There is still much debate regarding key high-risk pathology features and their corresponding prognostic significance and indications for adjuvant treatments. However, we are also developing a more nuanced understanding of the importance of precursor lesions and resultant subtypes of vulvar cancer, which suggests that there are more subtypes beyond the umbrella distinction of HPV status. Moving forward, we anticipate there will be an increasing number of trials investigating the triaging of management recommendations based on risk.

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chemotherapymolecular subtypingradiotherapytherapeutic approachesvulvar cancer

Identifiers

PMID40805118
PMCPMC12345584

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