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ReviewVirchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology2019

Immunosuppressive circuits in tumor microenvironment and their influence on cancer treatment efficacy.

Alessandra Tuccitto, Eriomina Shahaj, Elisabetta Vergani, Simona Ferro, Veronica Huber, Monica Rodolfo, Chiara Castelli, Licia Rivoltini, Viviana Vallacchi

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Review in Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

29 citing papers in PubMed, 53 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. A Prognostic Model Using Immune-Related Genes for Colorectal Cancer.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022
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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

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alessandra TuccittoUnit of Immunotherapy of Human Tumors, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, Via G. Venezian 1, 20133, Milan, Italy.
Eriomina ShahajUnit of Immunotherapy of Human Tumors, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, Via G. Venezian 1, 20133, Milan, Italy. Eriomina.Shahaj@istitutotumori.mi.it.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5428-0405
Elisabetta VerganiUnit of Immunotherapy of Human Tumors, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, Via G. Venezian 1, 20133, Milan, Italy.
Simona FerroUnit of Immunotherapy of Human Tumors, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, Via G. Venezian 1, 20133, Milan, Italy.
Veronica HuberUnit of Immunotherapy of Human Tumors, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, Via G. Venezian 1, 20133, Milan, Italy.
Monica RodolfoUnit of Immunotherapy of Human Tumors, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, Via G. Venezian 1, 20133, Milan, Italy.
Chiara CastelliUnit of Immunotherapy of Human Tumors, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, Via G. Venezian 1, 20133, Milan, Italy.
Licia RivoltiniUnit of Immunotherapy of Human Tumors, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, Via G. Venezian 1, 20133, Milan, Italy.
Viviana VallacchiUnit of Immunotherapy of Human Tumors, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, Via G. Venezian 1, 20133, Milan, Italy.
Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori · IT

Funding

Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro 5xMille 12162Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro IG-10727Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro IG-14285Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro IG-15192Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro IG-17462Fondazione Cariplo 2015-0911H2020 European Institute of Innovation and Technology 686089Ministero della Salute 52/RF-2010-2312620
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It has been for long conceived that hallmarks of cancer were intrinsic genetic features driving tumor development, proliferation, and progression, and that targeting such cell-autonomous pathways could be sufficient to achieve therapeutic cancer control. Clinical ex vivo data demonstrated that treatment efficacy often relied on the contribution of host immune responses, hence introducing the concept of tumor microenvironment (TME), namely the existence, along with tumor cells, of non-tumor components that could significantly influence tumor growth and survival. Among the complex network of TME-driving forces, immunity plays a key role and the balance between antitumor and protumor immune responses is a major driver in contrasting or promoting cancer spreading. TME is usually a very immunosuppressed milieu because of a vast array of local alterations contrasting antitumor adaptive immunity, where metabolic changes contribute to cancer dissemination by impairing T cell infiltration and favoring the accrual and activation of regulatory cells. Subcellular structures known as extracellular vesicles then help spreading immunosuppression at systemic levels by distributing genetic and protein tumor repertoire in distant tissues. A major improvement in the knowledge of TME is now pointing the attention back to tumor cells; indeed, recent findings are showing how oncogenic pathways and specific mutations in tumor cells can actually dictate the nature and the function of immune infiltrate. As our information on the reciprocal interactions regulating TME increases, finding a strategy to interfere with TME crosstalk becomes more complex and challenging. Nevertheless, TME interactions represent a promising field for the discovery of novel biomarkers and therapeutic targets for improving treatment efficacy in cancer.

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AnimalsHumansImmunotherapyNeoplasmsTumor EscapeTumor MicroenvironmentExtracellular vesiclesImmune checkpoint inhibitorsImmunosuppressionMetabolic reprogrammingMyeloid-derived suppressor cellsOncogenes

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PMID30374798
OpenAlexW2898793087

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