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ReviewNature reviews. Rheumatology2018

Rheumatic immune-related adverse events from cancer immunotherapy.

Leonard H Calabrese, Cassandra Calabrese, Laura C Cappelli

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Review in Nature reviews. Rheumatology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 115 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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115citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
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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

115 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  16. Vascular Toxicities of Cancer Therapies: 2025 Update.Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology · 2026
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  18. Organic Semiconducting Polymers for Cancer Sonodynamic Immunotherapy.Polymer science & technology (Washington, D.C.) · 2026
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55 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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.

Leonard H CalabreseDepartment of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA. calabrl@ccf.org.
Cassandra CalabreseDepartment of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Laura C CappelliDivision of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunotherapy has revolutionized the treatment of cancer, but a rapid rise in the use of the family of therapeutic agents known as checkpoint inhibitors (CPIs) is associated with a new group of immune-related adverse events (irAEs) in almost any organ system. Among these irAEs, rheumatic complications are common and seem to have features that are distinct from irAEs in other organ systems, including a highly variable time of clinical onset and the capacity to persist, possibly indefinitely, even after cessation of CPI therapy. In this Review, mechanisms of action of CPIs and how they might cause rheumatic irAEs are described. Also covered are epidemiology and clinical descriptions of rheumatic irAEs, plus guiding principles for managing irAEs. Finally, we outline future directions that must be taken in response to a series of unanswered questions and unmet needs that now confront rheumatologists who are, or will be, engaged in this new area of rheumatology.

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Clinical Trials as TopicDisease ManagementHumansImmunotherapyNeoplasmsPractice Guidelines as TopicRheumatic Diseases

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