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ArticleCancer discovery2018

A Critical Need for Better Cancer Immunotherapy Models: Are Organotypic Tumor Spheroid Cultures the Answer?

Justin M Balko, Jeffrey A Sosman

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Article in Cancer discovery, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 25% of its field
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.

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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. BIOPRINTING OF MICRODISSECTED TUMOR "CUBOIDS" IN HYDROGELS.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  2. Tumor FAK orchestrates immunosuppression in ovarian cancer via the CD155/TIGIT axis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  10. Evaluation of PD-1 blockade using a multicellular tumor spheroid model.American journal of translational research · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Justin M BalkoDepartments of Medicine and Cancer Biology, and Breast Cancer Research Program, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee. justin.balko@vanderbilt.edu.
Jeffrey A SosmanDepartment of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.
Breast Cancer Research Foundation · USNorthwestern University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

<b/> Immunotherapy has transformed the therapeutic landscape of cancer, but the preclinical evaluation of combination approaches that will deepen and broaden its clinical benefit has lagged far behind due to the lack of expedient and easily accessible

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NeoplasmsProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptorAnimalsHumansImmunotherapyMiceProgrammed Cell Death 1 Receptor

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PMID29431673
OpenAlexW2790692997

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