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ArticleNature medicine2018

Single-cell profiling of breast cancer T cells reveals a tissue-resident memory subset associated with improved prognosis.

Peter Savas, Balaji Virassamy, Chengzhong Ye, Agus Salim, Christopher P Mintoff, Franco Caramia, Roberto Salgado, David J Byrne, Zhi L Teo, Sathana Dushyanthen and 16 more

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Article in Nature medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 664 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
664citing papers in PubMed
38.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

664 citing papers in PubMed, 971 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

26 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Peter SavasDivision of Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5999-428X
Balaji VirassamyDivision of Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Chengzhong YeBioinformatics Division, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Agus SalimBioinformatics Division, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Christopher P MintoffDivision of Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Franco CaramiaDivision of Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Roberto SalgadoDivision of Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
David J ByrneDepartment of Pathology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Zhi L TeoDivision of Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Sathana DushyanthenDivision of Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Ann ByrneDivision of Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Lironne WeinDivision of Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Stephen J LuenDivision of Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Catherine PolinessDivision of Cancer Surgery, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Sophie S NightingaleDivision of Cancer Surgery, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Anita S SkandarajahDivision of Cancer Surgery, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
David E GyorkiDivision of Cancer Surgery, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Chantel M ThorntonDivision of Cancer Surgery, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Paul A BeavisDivision of Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Stephen B FoxSir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7648-8896
Kathleen Cuningham Foundation Consortium for Research into Familial Breast Cancer (kConFab)
Phillip K DarcyDivision of Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Terence P SpeedBioinformatics Division, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Laura K MackayDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8496-6632
Paul J NeesonDivision of Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. paul.neeson@petermac.org.
Sherene LoiDivision of Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. sherene.loi@petermac.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6137-9171
The University of Melbourne · AUPeter MacCallum Cancer Centre · AUThe Royal Melbourne Hospital · AUWalter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The quantity of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in breast cancer (BC) is a robust prognostic factor for improved patient survival, particularly in triple-negative and HER2-overexpressing BC subtypes

Indexed as

Immunologic MemoryBreast NeoplasmsCD3 ComplexCD8 AntigensDisease-Free SurvivalFemaleHumansKaplan-Meier EstimateLymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingPrognosisSequence Analysis, RNASingle-Cell AnalysisTriple Negative Breast NeoplasmsCD3 ComplexCD8 Antigens

Identifiers

PMID29942092
OpenAlexW2809205318

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