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ReviewCancer cell international2026

Natural compounds in the treatment of osteosarcoma: just chemotherapy adjuvants? or is there much more?

Daniele Bellavia, Flores Naselli, Paola Miriam Russo, Viviana Costa, Angela De Luca, Lavinia Raimondi, Fabio Caradonna, Gianluca Giavaresi

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Review in Cancer cell international, 2026. 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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0cells of the map it votes in
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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

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Daniele Bellavia *IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, SC Scienze e Tecnologie Chirurgiche, Bologna, Italy. daniele.bellavia@ior.it.
Flores Naselli *Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF), Section of Cellular Biology, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
Paola Miriam RussoDepartment of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF), Section of Cellular Biology, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
Viviana CostaIRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, SC Scienze e Tecnologie Chirurgiche, Bologna, Italy.
Angela De LucaIRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, SC Scienze e Tecnologie Chirurgiche, Bologna, Italy.
Lavinia RaimondiIRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, SC Scienze e Tecnologie Chirurgiche, Bologna, Italy.
Fabio Caradonna *Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF), Section of Cellular Biology, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
Gianluca Giavaresi *IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, SC Scienze e Tecnologie Chirurgiche, Bologna, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Osteosarcoma is the most common type of bone tumor. Different therapeutic approaches are used in the management of osteosarcoma, where surgery is most often performed, often preceded and followed by chemotherapy, which however has serious short- and long-term side effects. Recently, much attention has been paid to natural compounds that can determine cell death of tumor. Some have a direct cytotoxic effect, and they also can reduce tumor and metastatic activity. Furthermore, it described how these molecules can also interact with elective chemotherapy against osteosarcoma. In this review, we have analysed the last decade literature, highlighting both the studies that have a direct cytotoxic effect on osteosarcoma, and those that are used as adjuvants to chemotherapy, allowing to reduce treatment doses, limiting the side effects. The comparison between the different studies have led to relevant considerations on the study standardization.

Indexed as

ChemotherapyNatural compoundNutrigenomicsOsteosarcoma

Identifiers

PMID41664027
PMCPMC12983539

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