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Bringing new medicines to women with epithelial ovarian cancer: what is the unmet medical need?

Overview of attention for article published in Gynecologic Oncology Research and Practice, September 2017
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Title
Bringing new medicines to women with epithelial ovarian cancer: what is the unmet medical need?
Published in
Gynecologic Oncology Research and Practice, September 2017
DOI 10.1186/s40661-017-0050-0
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Authors

Thomas J. Herzog, Bradley J. Monk

Abstract

Therapy for advanced epithelial ovarian cancer (OC) includes first line platinum/taxane-containing chemotherapy and re-treatment with platinum-containing regimens for disease recurrence in patients likely to respond again. Single-agent, non-platinum, cytotoxic agents are commonly used to treat patients resistant to platinum retreatment, but these agents are associated with dose-limiting toxicities and response rates below 20%. Recent advances have led to novel targeted treatments for recurrent OC that offer opportunities to improve response rates and prolong progression-free intervals. However, they also add complexity to the process of selecting treatment for individual patients at different stages of the disease process. Advanced and recurrent OC is rarely cured. Multiple lines of platinum combinations, and nonplatinum chemotherapeutics eventually fail to achieve clinical benefit, thus other active and tolerable systemic therapies are needed. Consequently, the US Food and Drug Administration has created a mechanism for "accelerated approval" of new medicines in situations of high unmet medical need. We review the clinical implications of recent key clinical studies in these settings and outline the path forward for study design and approval of novel therapeutics to treat recurrent OC.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 30 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 5 17%
Researcher 4 13%
Other 2 7%
Student > Bachelor 2 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 7%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 13 43%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 6 20%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 7%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 3%
Other 3 10%
Unknown 12 40%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 October 2017.
All research outputs
#7,483,041
of 23,003,906 outputs
Outputs from Gynecologic Oncology Research and Practice
#12
of 34 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#118,878
of 315,658 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Gynecologic Oncology Research and Practice
#1
of 2 outputs
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