Evidence map›Paper›PMID 8841721›Full record

ReviewAnnals of biomedical engineering

1995 Whitaker Lecture: delivery of molecules, particles, and cells to solid tumors.

R K Jain

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Review in Annals of biomedical engineering. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
19citing papers in PubMed
12.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 81 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Normalizing tumor microenvironment to treat cancer: bench to bedside to biomarkers.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2013
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  8. A novel peptide (Thx) homing to non-small cell lung cancer identified by ex vivo phage display.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2013
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  14. Noninvasive methods to study drug distribution.Investigational new drugs · 2003
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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

R K JainDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston 02114, USA.
Massachusetts General Hospital · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To reach cancer cells in a tumor, a blood-borne therapeutic agent must make its way into the blood vessels of the tumor and across the vessel wall into the interstitium, and finally migrate through the interstitium. Unfortunately, tumors often develop in ways that hinder each of these steps. Our research goals are to analyze each of these steps experimentally and theoretically, and then to integrate the resulting information in a unified theoretical framework. This paradigm of analysis and synthesis has allowed us to obtain a better understanding of physiological barriers in solid tumors, and to develop novel strategies to exploit and/or to overcome these barriers for improved cancer detection and treatment.

Indexed as

AnimalsBiological TransportBlood Flow VelocityCapillary PermeabilityCell AdhesionCell MovementHumansMicrocirculationModels, BiologicalNeoplasms, ExperimentalNeovascularization, Pathologic

Identifiers

PMID8841721
OpenAlexW2073470348

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.