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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2018

Concepts Collide: Genomic, Immune, and Microbial Influences on the Tumor Microenvironment and Response to Cancer Therapy.

Miles C Andrews, Alexandre Reuben, Vancheswaran Gopalakrishnan, Jennifer A Wargo

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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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

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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

18 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Outcome-Related Signatures Identified by Whole Transcriptome Sequencing of Resectable Stage III/IV Melanoma Evaluated after Starting Hu14.18-IL2.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2020
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  13. Immune Checkpoint Therapy: Tumor Draining Lymph Nodes in the Spotlights.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  17. T Cell Reprogramming Against Cancer.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Miles C AndrewsDepartment of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States.
Alexandre ReubenDepartment of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States.
Vancheswaran GopalakrishnanDepartment of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States.
Jennifer A WargoDepartment of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States.

Funding

Tumor Evolution and Metastasis ProgramP30CA016672 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI Scott Kopetz · 1985 to 2026
$290.8M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer research has seen unprecedented advances over the past several years, with tremendous insights gained into mechanisms of response and resistance to cancer therapy. Central to this has been our understanding of crosstalk between the tumor and the microenvironment, with the recognition that complex interactions exist between tumor cells, stromal cells, overall host immunity, and the environment surrounding the host. This is perhaps best exemplified in cancer immunotherapy, where numerous studies across cancer types have illuminated our understanding of the genomic and immune factors that shape responses to therapy. In addition to their individual contributions, it is now clear that there is a complex interplay between genomic/epigenomic alterations and tumor immune responses that impact cellular plasticity and therapeutic responses. In addition to this, it is also now apparent that significant heterogeneity exists within tumors-both at the level of genomic mutations as well as tumor immune responses-thus contributing to heterogeneous clinical responses. Beyond the tumor microenvironment, overall host immunity plays a major role in mediating clinical responses. The gut microbiome plays a central role, with recent evidence revealing that the gut microbiome influences the overall immune set-point, through diverse effects on local and systemic inflammatory processes. Indeed, quantifiable differences in the gut microbiome have been associated with disease and treatment outcomes in patients and pre-clinical models, though precise mechanisms of microbiome-immune interactions are yet to be elucidated. Complexities are discussed herein, with a discussion of each of these variables as they relate to treatment response.

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AnimalsBiological Variation, IndividualBiomarkers, TumorDisease SusceptibilityEnvironmentGastrointestinal MicrobiomeGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenomicsHumansImmunityMicrobiotaNeoplasmsPrognosisTreatment OutcomeTumor MicroenvironmentBiomarkers, Tumorbiomarkerscancer genomicscancer immunotherapyheterogeneitymicrobiomesystemic immunitytumor microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID29780391
PMCPMC5945998

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