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ReviewBiomedicines2018

New Development of Biomarkers for Gastrointestinal Cancers: From Neoplastic Cells to Tumor Microenvironment.

Jiajia Zhang, Shafat Quadri, Christopher L Wolfgang, Lei Zheng

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Review in Biomedicines, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Prognostic significance of pre-intervention circulating cytokines in digestive system cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jiajia ZhangDepartments of Oncology and Surgery, the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, the Pancreatic Cancer Precision Medicine Center of Excellence Program, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA. zhangjiajia@jhmi.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-4623-6134
Shafat QuadriMerck Research Laboratory, Merck & Co., Kenilworth, NJ 07033, USA. shafat.quadri@merck.com.
Christopher L WolfgangDepartments of Oncology and Surgery, the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, the Pancreatic Cancer Precision Medicine Center of Excellence Program, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA. cwolfga2@jhmi.edu.
Lei ZhengDepartments of Oncology and Surgery, the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, the Pancreatic Cancer Precision Medicine Center of Excellence Program, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA. lzheng6@jhmi.edu.

Funding

Translational Research Central ServicesP30CA006973 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI WILLIAM George NELSON · 1985 to 2026
$208.6M
Tumor Antigens for Individual Signatures and TherapyP50CA062924 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI JAFFEE, ELIZABETH M. · 1993 to 2022
$54.6M
Targeting the Immunosuppressive Tumor Microenvironment of Pancreatic Cancer with a Neoadjuvant Platform Clinical TrialR01CA197296 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI William Reece Burns, Eric Christenson · 2015 to 2026
$5.7M
Interrogate the interaction between tumor cells and nerves in the tumor microenvironment of pancreatic cancerR01CA169702 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI ZHENG, LEI · 2013 to 2023
$3.6M
Dissecting the mechanisms of immune tolerance within the pancreatic tumor's microK23CA148964 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI ZHENG, LEI · 2010 to 2014
$888k
NCI NIH HHS K23 CA148964NCI NIH HHS P30 CA006973NCI NIH HHS P50 CA062924NCI NIH HHS R01 CA169702NCI NIH HHS R01 CA197296
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biomarkers refer to a plethora of biological characteristics that can be quantified to facilitate cancer diagnosis, forecast the prognosis of disease, and predict a response to treatment. The identification of objective biomarkers is among the most crucial steps in the realization of individualized cancer care. Several tumor biomarkers for gastrointestinal malignancies have been applied in the clinical setting to help differentiate between cancer and other conditions, facilitate patient selection for targeted therapies, and to monitor treatment response and recurrence. With the coming of the immunotherapy age, the need for a new development of biomarkers that are indicative of the immune response to tumors are unprecedentedly urgent. Biomarkers from the tumor microenvironment, tumor genome, and signatures from liquid biopsies have been explored, but the majority have shown a limited prognostic or predictive value as single biomarkers. Nevertheless, use of multiplex biomarkers has the potential to provide a significantly increased diagnostic accuracy compared to traditional single biomarker. A comprehensive analysis of immune-biomarkers is needed to reveal the dynamic and multifaceted anti-tumor immunity and thus imply for the rational design of assays and combinational strategies.

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biomarkergastrointestinal malignanciesimmunotherapy

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PMID30104497
PMCPMC6163728

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