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ReviewCancers2024

Retinoid Therapy for Neuroblastoma: Historical Overview, Regulatory Challenges, and Prospects.

Atsushi Makimoto, Hiroyuki Fujisaki, Kimikazu Matsumoto, Yoshiyuki Takahashi, Yuko Cho, Yoshihiko Morikawa, Yuki Yuza, Tatsuro Tajiri, Tomoko Iehara

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In one paragraph

Review in Cancers, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
20citing papers in PubMed
8.1field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

20 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Targeting the JAK/STAT signalling axis in cancer: chemopreventive potential of natural compounds with emerging focus on retinoids.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  13. Peptidergic Systems and Neuroblastoma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  14. Serendipity in Neuro-Oncology: The Evolution of Chemotherapeutic Agents.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  18. Effects of Anionic Liposome Delivery of All-Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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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

9 authors at 7 institutions in 1 country.

Atsushi MakimotoDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Children's Medical Center, Fuchu 183-8561, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-0036-7748
Hiroyuki FujisakiDepartment of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Osaka City General Hospital, Osaka 534-0021, Japan.
Kimikazu MatsumotoChildren's Cancer Center, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo 157-8535, Japan.
Yoshiyuki TakahashiDepartment of Pediatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya 466-8560, Japan.
Yuko ChoDepartment of Pediatrics, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo 060-8648, Japan.
Yoshihiko MorikawaClinical Research Support Center, Tokyo Metropolitan Children's Medical Center, Fuchu 183-8561, Japan.
Yuki YuzaDepartment of Hematology/Oncology, Tokyo Metropolitan Children's Medical Center, Fuchu 183-8561, Japan.
Tatsuro TajiriDepartment of Pediatric Surgery, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan.
Tomoko IeharaDepartment of Pediatrics, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto 602-8566, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-1740-7096
Tokyo Metropolitan Children's Medical Center · JPHokkaido University Hospital · JPKyoto Prefectural University of Medicine · JPKyushu University · JPNagoya University · JPNational Center For Child Health and Development · JPOsaka City General Hospital · JP

Funding

Sun Pharma Japan Co., Ltd. NA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Retinoids are vitamin A derivatives and include trans-retinoic acid, isotretinoin, tamibarotene, and bexarotene, all of which are currently available for clinical use. The clinical development of retinoid therapy for neuroblastoma has a history spanning more than four decades. The most promising agent is isotretinoin, which can contribute to improving event-free survival in patients with high-risk neuroblastoma by approximately 10% when administered over six months as maintenance therapy. Although isotretinoin is regarded as an essential component in the standard clinical management of high-risk neuroblastoma, its use for this purpose in the US and EU is off-label. To promote isotretinoin use in Japan as a treatment for neuroblastoma, our clinical research team is planning to launch an investigator-initiated, registration-directed clinical trial. The present review article discusses the basic science behind retinoid therapy, pre-clinical/clinical evidence on neuroblastoma, the concept of the proposed clinical trial, and prospects for this therapy.

Indexed as

high-riskisotretinoinmaintenance therapyneuroblastomaoff-label issueretinoic acidsretinoidsretinoid therapytumor differentiation therapy

Identifiers

PMID38339295
PMCPMC10854948
OpenAlexW4391263530

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