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ReviewJournal for immunotherapy of cancer2019

Lymphopenia in Cancer Patients and its Effects on Response to Immunotherapy: an opportunity for combination with Cytokines?

Christine Ménétrier-Caux, Isabelle Ray-Coquard, Jean-Yves Blay, Christophe Caux

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 234 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
234citing papers in PubMed, 10 pooled it
15.3field-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

234 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 318 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Association between the systemic inflammation response index and prognosis in lung cancer: 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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  13. Therapeutic vaccines for NSCLC: From mechanisms to clinical translation.Chinese medical journal pulmonary and critical care medicine · 2026
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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Christine Ménétrier-CauxUniv Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, INSERM 1052, CNRS 5286, Cancer Research Center of Lyon (CRCL), Centre Léon Bérard, F-69008, Lyon, France. christine.caux@lyon.unicancer.fr.ORCID 0000-0003-4863-374X
Isabelle Ray-CoquardMedical Oncology department, Centre Léon Bérard, F-69008, Lyon, France.
Jean-Yves BlayUniv Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, INSERM 1052, CNRS 5286, Cancer Research Center of Lyon (CRCL), Centre Léon Bérard, F-69008, Lyon, France.
Christophe CauxUniv Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, INSERM 1052, CNRS 5286, Cancer Research Center of Lyon (CRCL), Centre Léon Bérard, F-69008, Lyon, France.
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 · FRCentre Léon Bérard · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quantitative lymphocyte alterations are frequent in patients with cancer, and strongly impact prognosis and survival. The development of cancers in immunosuppressed patients has demonstrated the contribution of different T cell populations, including CD4

Indexed as

HumansImmunotherapyIncidenceLymphocyte CountLymphopeniaNeoplasmsTreatment Outcomeanti-cancer immunotherapyLymphopeniasolid tumorsTCR diversity

Identifiers

PMID30922400
PMCPMC6437964
OpenAlexW2943769232

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