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ReviewCancers2019

Beyond PD-1/PD-L1 Inhibition: What the Future Holds for Breast Cancer Immunotherapy.

Sebastian Chrétien, Ioannis Zerdes, Jonas Bergh, Alexios Matikas, Theodoros Foukakis

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Review in Cancers, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  15. Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Cancer Therapy.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2022
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  20. A new biological triangle in cancer: intestinal microbiota, immune checkpoint inhibitors and antibiotics.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2021
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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

5 authors.

Sebastian ChrétienDepartment of Oncology - Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 171 76, Sweden. chretien.sebastian@gmail.com.
Ioannis ZerdesDepartment of Oncology - Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 171 76, Sweden. ioannis.zerdes@ki.se.
Jonas BerghDepartment of Oncology - Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 171 76, Sweden. Jonas.Bergh@ki.se.
Alexios MatikasDepartment of Oncology - Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 171 76, Sweden. alexios.matikas@ki.se.
Theodoros FoukakisDepartment of Oncology - Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 171 76, Sweden. theodoros.foukakis@ki.se.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer immunotherapy has altered the management of human malignancies, improving outcomes in an expanding list of diseases. Breast cancer - presumably due to its perceived low immunogenicity - is a late addition to this list. Furthermore, most of the focus has been on the triple negative subtype because of its higher tumor mutational load and lymphocyte-enriched stroma, although emerging data show promise on the other breast cancer subtypes as well. To this point the clinical use of immunotherapy is limited to the inhibition of two immune checkpoints, Programmed Cell Death Protein 1 (PD-1) and Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated Protein 4 (CTLA-4). Consistent with the complexity of the regulation of the tumor - host interactions and their lack of reliance on a single regulatory pathway, combinatory approaches have shown improved efficacy albeit at the cost of increased toxicity. Beyond those two checkpoints though, a large number of co-stimulatory or co-inhibitory molecules play major roles on tumor evasion from immunosurveillance. These molecules likely represent future targets of immunotherapy provided that the promise shown in early data is translated into improved patient survival in randomized trials. The biological role, prognostic and predictive implications regarding breast cancer and early clinical efforts on exploiting these immune-related therapeutic targets are herein reviewed.

Indexed as

breast cancercheckpoint inhibitorsco-stimulatoryimmunotherapynovel targetsPD-1PD-L1

Identifiers

PMID31060337
PMCPMC6562626

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