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ReviewJournal of dental research2018

Precision Therapy of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

P J Polverini, N J D'Silva, Y L Lei

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Review in Journal of dental research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
35citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

35 citing papers in PubMed, 57 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Immune biomarkers for head and neck cancer.Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII · 2025
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  16. circFAT1 Promotes Cancer Stemness and Immune Evasion by Promoting STAT3 Activation.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2021
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  18. The functions of autophagy at the tumour-immune interface.Journal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2021
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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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

P J Polverini1 Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine, Division of Oral Medicine, Pathology, and Radiology, University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
N J D'Silva1 Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine, Division of Oral Medicine, Pathology, and Radiology, University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Y L Lei1 Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine, Division of Oral Medicine, Pathology, and Radiology, University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor · USMichigan Medicine · US

Funding

Improving Survival in Oral Cancer by Disruption of Tumor ProgressionR35DE027551 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI D'SILVA, NISHA J · 2017 to 2024
$8.1M
Restoring the Immunogenicity of Head and Neck CancerR01DE026728 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI Yu Leo Lei, James J. Moon · 2018 to 2026
$4.3M
Role of EZH2 in Invasion and Migration in the Oral MucosaR01DE022567 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI D'SILVA, NISHA J · 2013 to 2016
$1.4M
Autophagy-promoting NLRX1-TUFM complex and cancer cell resistance to cetuximabR00DE024173 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI LEI, YU LEO · 2016 to 2018
$863k
NIDCR NIH HHS R00 DE024173NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE022567NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE026728NIDCR NIH HHS R35 DE027551
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Precision medicine is an approach to disease prevention and treatment that takes into account genetic variability and environmental and lifestyle influences that are unique to each patient. It facilitates stratification of patient populations that vary in their susceptibility to disease and response to therapy. Shared databases and the implementation of new technology systems designed to advance the integration of this information will enable health care providers to more accurately predict and customize prevention and treatment strategies for patients. Although precision medicine has had a limited impact in most areas of medicine, it has been shown to be an increasingly successful approach to cancer therapy. Despite early promising results targeting aberrant signaling pathways or inhibitors designed to block tumor-driven processes such as angiogenesis, limited success emphasizes the need to discover new biomarkers and treatment targets that are more reliable in predicting response to therapy and result in better health outcomes. Recent successes in the use of immunity-inducing antibodies have stimulated increased interest in the use of precision immunotherapy of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Using next-generation sequencing, the precise profiling of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes has great promise to identify hypoimmunogenic cancer that would benefit from a rationally designed combinatorial approach. Continued interrogation of tumors will reveal new actionable targets with increasing therapeutic efficacy and fulfill the promise of precision therapy of head and neck cancer.

Indexed as

Precision MedicineBiomarkers, TumorCarcinoma, Squamous CellGenomicsHead and Neck NeoplasmsHumansImmunotherapyMolecular Targeted TherapySignal TransductionBiomarkers, Tumorbiomarkersdiagnosisgenomicshead and neck neoplasmsimmunotherapymolecular targeted therapy

Identifiers

PMID29649374
PMCPMC5960884
OpenAlexW2797021833

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