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ReviewMolecular oncology2019

Therapeutic cancer prevention: achievements and ongoing challenges - a focus on breast and colorectal cancer.

Davide Serrano, Bernardo Bonanni, Karen Brown

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Review in Molecular oncology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 17% 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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Davide SerranoDivision of Cancer Prevention and Genetics, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy.
Bernardo BonanniDivision of Cancer Prevention and Genetics, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy.
Karen BrownLeicester Cancer Research Centre, University of Leicester, UK.
European Institute of Oncology · ITUniversity of Leicester · GB

Funding

Cancer Research UK 13101Italian Ministry of Health
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The constant increase of cancer incidence and the huge costs of new treatments make cancer prevention a crucial goal in order to maintain sustainable public health systems across the world. Carcinogenesis is a multistep process, which allows time for active intervention with natural or synthetic agents to stop or reverse the pathological process. Cancer prevention medicine can be considered to be treatment of premalignant cells or preneoplastic conditions. Clearly such interventions require well-defined risk classification so that personalized strategies and specific treatments can be applied to cohorts with a documented increased cancer risk, and not to the general population as a whole. Further development of these strategies in an efficient and timely manner requires investment in the discovery and validation of surrogate cancer biomarkers with both prognostic and predictive value to detect and monitor the efficacy of interventions in clinical trials and beyond. In the field of cancer prevention medicine, breast and colon cancer demonstrates the strongest clinical evidence that pharmacological intervention can lower cancer risk. Here, we offer an overview of the major clinical achievements for these cancers and the critical issues to improve implementation and clinical uptake of efficacious therapies, as well as further developments needed in the field of preventive medicine.

Indexed as

Breast NeoplasmsColorectal NeoplasmsFemaleHumansIncidenceRisk Factorsaspirinbreast cancercolorectal cancermedical preventiontamoxifentherapeutic prevention

Identifiers

PMID30690875
PMCPMC6396378
OpenAlexW2913225215

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