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ArticleClinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research2017

The Challenge for Development of Valuable Immuno-oncology Biomarkers.

Janice M Mehnert, Arta M Monjazeb, Johanna M T Beerthuijzen, Deborah Collyar, Larry Rubinstein, Lyndsay N Harris

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Article in Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

57 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. Anti-PD-1/L1-associated immune-related adverse events as harbinger of favorable clinical outcome: systematic review and meta-analysis.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2021
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  3. Updated guidelines for predictive biomarker testing in advanced non-small-cell lung cancer: a National Consensus of the Spanish Society of Pathology and the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2020
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  5. Battlegrounds of treatment resistance: decoding the tumor microenvironment.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Janice M MehnertRutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. mehnerja@cinj.rutgers.edu.
Arta M MonjazebUC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, Sacramento, California.
Johanna M T BeerthuijzenUC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, Sacramento, California.
Deborah CollyarPatient Advocates In Research (PAIR), Danville, California.
Larry RubinsteinNational Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland.
Lyndsay N HarrisNational Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland.

Funding

Wisconsin and New Jersey Alliance in Precision Experimental TherapeuticsUM1CA186716 · NCI · RBHS -CANCER INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY · PI JABBOUR, SALMA, LIU, GLENN · 2014 to 2019
$4.1M
NCI NIH HHS UM1 CA186716
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of immunotherapy is an important breakthrough for the treatment of cancer, with antitumor efficacy observed in a wide variety of tumors. To optimize immunotherapy use, approaches must be developed to identify which patients are likely to achieve benefit. To minimize therapeutic toxicities and costs, understanding the ideal choice and sequencing of the numerous immuno-oncology agents available for individual patients is thus critical, but fraught with challenges. The immune tumor microenvironment (TME) is a unique aspect of the response to immuno-oncology agents and measurement of single biomarkers does not adequately capture these complex interactions. Therefore, multiple potential biomarkers are likely needed. Current candidates in this area include PD-L1 expression, CD8

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Biomarkers, TumorHumansImmunotherapyLymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingNeoplasmsQuality of LifeTumor MicroenvironmentBiomarkers, Tumor

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PMID28864725
PMCPMC5657536

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