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ReviewCritical reviews in oncogenesis2016

Immunology Comes Full Circle in Melanoma While Specific Immunity Is Unleashed to Eliminate Metastatic Disease, Inflammatory Products of Innate Immunity Promote Resistance.

Elizabeth A Grimm

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In one paragraph

Review in Critical reviews in oncogenesis, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 34% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Elizabeth A GrimmUniversity of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Avenue, Mail Unit 421, Room FC 11.2048, Houston, TX 77030.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · US

Funding

Tumor Evolution and Metastasis ProgramP30CA016672 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI Scott Kopetz · 1985 to 2026
$290.8M
UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center SPORE in MelanomaP50CA093459 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI GRIMM, ELIZABETH A · 2004 to 2014
$23.7M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016672NCI NIH HHS P50 CA093459
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Melanoma and many other cancers often express cells and molecular features of inflammation. Intrinsic to melanoma is the expression of a continuous cycle of cytokines and oxidative stress markers. The oxidative stress of inflammation is proposed to drive a metastatic process, not only of DNA adducts and crosslinks, but also of posttranslational oxidative modifications to lipids and proteins that we argue support growth and survival. Fortunately, numerous antioxidant agents are available clinically and we further propose that the pharmacological attenuation of these inflammatory processes, particularly the reactive nitrogen species, will restore the cancer cells to an apoptosis-permissive and growth-inhibitory state. Experimental model data using a small-molecule arginine antagonist that prevents enzymatic production of nitric oxide supports this view directly. I propose that the recognition, measurement, and regulation of such carcinogenic inflammation be considered as part of the approach to the treatment of cancer.

Indexed as

Drug Resistance, NeoplasmImmunity, InnateCytokinesHumansInflammation MediatorsMelanomaNeoplasm MetastasisNitric OxideOxidative StressReactive Nitrogen SpeciesReactive Oxygen SpeciesSignal TransductionTumor MicroenvironmentCytokinesInflammation MediatorsNitric OxideReactive Nitrogen SpeciesReactive Oxygen Species

Identifiers

PMID27481002
PMCPMC5796770
OpenAlexW2337601701

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Registered trials

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