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ReviewCancer biology & therapy2024

Agent-based modeling in cancer biomedicine: applications and tools for calibration and validation.

Nicolò Cogno, Cristian Axenie, Roman Bauer, Vasileios Vavourakis

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Review in Cancer biology & therapy, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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22citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. A systematic review of the assessment model for palliative care needs in cancer patients.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026
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  14. Personalizing computational models to construct medical digital twins.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025
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  18. Personalizing computational models to construct medical digital twins.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 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

4 authors.

Nicolò CognoDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4205-4640
Cristian AxenieComputer Science Department and Center for Artificial Intelligence, Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm, Nuremberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6184-0546
Roman BauerNature Inspired Computing and Engineering Research Group, Computer Science Research Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7268-9359
Vasileios VavourakisDepartment of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4102-2084

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Computational models are not just appealing because they can simulate and predict the development of biological phenomena across multiple spatial and temporal scales, but also because they can integrate information from well-established

Indexed as

Models, BiologicalNeoplasmsAnimalsCalibrationComputer SimulationHumansAgent-based modelingbiomechanicsbiophysicscalibrationcancer simulationmulti-levelmulti-scaleoptimizationprecision oncologyvalidation

Identifiers

PMID38678381
PMCPMC11057625

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