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ReviewTranslational oncology2018

Immune Prophets of Lung Cancer: The Prognostic and Predictive Landscape of Cellular and Molecular Immune Markers.

Ivana Catacchio, Anna Scattone, Nicola Silvestris, Anita Mangia

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Review in Translational oncology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
31citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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

31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 61 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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ivana CatacchioFunctional Biomorphology Laboratory, IRCCS-Istituto Tumori, Bari 70124, Italy.
Anna ScattonePathology Department, IRCCS-Istituto Tumori, Bari 70124, Italy.
Nicola SilvestrisScientific Direction, IRCCS-Istituto Tumori, Bari 70124, Italy.
Anita MangiaFunctional Biomorphology Laboratory, IRCCS-Istituto Tumori, Bari 70124, Italy. Electronic address: a.mangia@oncologico.bari.it.
Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico · ITIstituto Tumori Bari · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths throughout the world. The majority of patients are diagnosed with locally advanced or metastatic disease when surgery, the best curative option, is no longer feasible. Thus, the prognosis of lung cancer remains poor and heterogeneous and new biomarkers are needed. As the immune system plays a pivotal role in cancer, the study of tumor microenvironment, with regard to the immune component, may provide valuable information for a better comprehension of the pathogenesis and progression of the disease. Through a detailed and critical evaluation of the most recent publications on this topic, we provide evidences of the prognostic and predictive significance of immune markers in tumor and in peripheral blood of lung cancer patients: from the landscape of immune cells (macrophages, neutrophils, lymphocytes and natural killer) and their cytokines, to the analysis of immune-checkpoints (PD-L1 and CTLA4), up to the genetic and epigenetic regulation of the immune response (immune gene signatures and miRNA). We also argue about the lights and shadows related to immune marker use in clinical practice, emphasizing on one hand the importance of their assessment in the choice of therapeutic treatment, on the other, the difficulty in their determination and reproducibility of literature data. The following review gives a foundation and a suggestion for future studies investigating tumor immunology in lung cancer.

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PMID29729581
PMCPMC6050352
OpenAlexW2799665702

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