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sj-pdf-1-tau-10.1177_17562872241244574 – Supplemental material for Assessing the effectiveness and safety of lenvatinib and everolimus in advanced renal cell carcinoma: insights from the RELIEVE study’s analysis of heavily pretreated patients
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-tau-10.1177_17562872241244574 for Assessing the effectiveness and safety of lenvatinib and everolimus in advanced renal cell carcinoma: insights from the RELIEVE study’s analysis of heavily pretreated patients by Sebastiano Buti, Alessandro Olivari, Cristina Masini, Davide Bimbatti, Donata Sartori, Paola Ermacora, Carlo Cattrini, Maria Giuseppa Vitale, Ernesto Rossi, Claudia Mucciarini, Mimma Rizzo, Michele Sisani, Matteo Santoni, Giandomenico Roviello, Veronica Mollica, Vincenza Conteduca, Francesco Grillone, Marika Cinausero, Giuseppe Prati, Francesco Atzori, Marco Stellato, Francesco Massari and Melissa Bersanelli in Therapeutic Advances in Urology</p
sj-docx-1-tau-10.1177_17562872241244574 – Supplemental material for Assessing the effectiveness and safety of lenvatinib and everolimus in advanced renal cell carcinoma: insights from the RELIEVE study’s analysis of heavily pretreated patients
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-tau-10.1177_17562872241244574 for Assessing the effectiveness and safety of lenvatinib and everolimus in advanced renal cell carcinoma: insights from the RELIEVE study’s analysis of heavily pretreated patients by Sebastiano Buti, Alessandro Olivari, Cristina Masini, Davide Bimbatti, Donata Sartori, Paola Ermacora, Carlo Cattrini, Maria Giuseppa Vitale, Ernesto Rossi, Claudia Mucciarini, Mimma Rizzo, Michele Sisani, Matteo Santoni, Giandomenico Roviello, Veronica Mollica, Vincenza Conteduca, Francesco Grillone, Marika Cinausero, Giuseppe Prati, Francesco Atzori, Marco Stellato, Francesco Massari and Melissa Bersanelli in Therapeutic Advances in Urology</p
Chromogranin A is a potential prognostic marker in prostate cancer patients treated with enzalutamide
No full textBACKGROUND:
In this retrospective study, we assessed chromogranin A (CgA) baseline value as a possible factor associated with poor prognosis in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC).
METHODS:
Thirty-five patients with metastatic CRPC progressing after docetaxel chemotherapy treated with enzalutamide are subdivided into three groups: serum CgA level was normal when <120 ng/ml (group A, n = 10), within three times the upper normal value (UNV) when between 120 and 360 (group B, n = 17), more than three times the UNV when ≥360 ng/ml (group C, n = 8).
RESULTS:
No correlation was observed in three groups among CgA baseline values and PSA response rates (RR) (P = 0.4648), whereas a significative difference was associated with median progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) among three CgA groups (P = 0.0301 and P = 0.0011, respectively). In the multivariate analysis, PSA RR (nonresponsive vs. responsive) and CgA levels (group 3 vs. groups 1 + 2) were predictors of OS (P = 0.0029 and P = 0.0025, respectively), whereas they only were not significantly correlated with PFS, even had a borderline significance (P = 0.0628 and P = 0.0772, respectively).
CONCLUSIONS:
In CRPC patients treated with enzalutamide, the evaluation of serum CgA levels could be an useful prognostic factor because of the strong association between CgA value more than three times the UNV and clinical outcome, independently from PSA response
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
The interplay between inflammation, anti-angiogenic agents, and immune checkpoint inhibitors: Perspectives for renal cell cancer treatment
Full text linkTreatment options for metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) have been expanding in the last years, from the consolidation of several anti-angiogenic agents to the approval of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). The rationale for the use of immunomodulating agents derived from the observation that RCC usually shows a diffuse immune-cell infiltrate. ICIs target Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes Antigen 4 (CTLA-4), programmed death 1 (PD-1), or its ligand (PD-L1), showing promising therapeutic efficacy in RCC. PD-L1 expression is associated with poor prognosis; however, its predictive role remains debated. In fact, ICIs may be a valid option even for PD-L1 negative patients. The establishment of valid predictors of treatment response to available therapeutic options is advocated to identify those patients who could benefit from these agents. Both local and systemic inflammation contribute to tumorigenesis and development of cancer. The interplay of tumor-immune status and of cancer-related systemic inflammation is pivotal for ICI treatment outcome, but there is an unmet need for a more precise characterization. To date, little is known on the role of inflammation markers on PD-1 blockade in RCC. In this paper, we review the current knowledge on the interplay between inflammation markers, PD-1 axis, and anti-angiogenic agents in RCC, focusing on biological rationale, implications for treatment, and possible future perspectives
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