ReviewNPJ breast cancer2019
If we build it they will come: targeting the immune response to breast cancer.
Review in NPJ breast cancer, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 139 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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139 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 198 citations in OpenAlex.
- Guideline
- Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) supplementation attenuates changes in the concentration, phenotype, and response of immune peripheral blood cells in breast cancer patients undergoing neoadjuvant therapy. Secondary findings from the DHA-WIN trial.Breast cancer research : BCR · 2025Trial
- Loss of short-form Ron promotes B and T cell cooperation to prevent outgrowth of breast cancer bone metastasis.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Dual Role of Tamoxifen in Enhancing STING and CEACAM1 Expression to Prime a Favorable Tumor Microenvironment for Anti-TIM3 Immunotherapy.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Identification of a prognostic model using immune related genes combined with tumour mutational burden and T cell infiltration in triple-negative breast cancer.Oncology letters · 2026Article
- Neoadjuvant Endocrine Treatment plus Mammaglobin-A DNA Vaccine Induces Antitumor Immune Responses in the Primary Tumor and Peripheral Blood of Patients with Breast Cancer: Insights from a Phase Ib Clinical Trial.Cancer immunology research · 2026Article
- Preclinical models of breast cancer metastasis: strengths, limitations, and clinical relevance.NPJ breast cancer · 2026Review
- Harnessing pyroptosis in breast cancer therapy: immunological mechanisms and emerging biomaterial strategies.Cell death discovery · 2026Review
- The "Cold Tumor" to "Hot Tumor" transformation strategy for triple-negative breast cancer: from mechanism to clinical translation.Molecular and cellular biochemistry · 2026Review
- Immune system, inflammatory response, and regulated cell death in breast cancer research (Review).Oncology reports · 2026Review
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- Induced Electric Fields Inhibit Breast Cancer Growth and Metastasis and Modulate the Immune Tumor Microenvironment.Breast cancer (Dove Medical Press) · 2026Article
- Robust Association of Breast Cancer Co-morbidity Using Subtype-specific Expressed Genes.Current drug targets · 2026Article
- VEGF-Leptin Crosstalk in Breast and Ovarian Cancer: Drivers of Angiogenesis and Progression.Cancer management and research · 2026Review
- Monitoring systemic immune responses to checkpoint inhibition in breast cancer reveals host responses and mechanisms of resistance.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2025Article
- Interaction between the breast tumor microenvironment and gut microbiome.Gut microbes · 2025Review
- Advancing equitable access to innovation in breast cancer.NPJ breast cancer · 2025Article
- Immunotherapy in breast cancer: current landscape and emerging trends.Experimental hematology & oncology · 2025Review
- Skimmianine Modulates Tumor Proliferation and Immune Dynamics in Breast Cancer by Targeting PCNA and TNF-α.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- CCL2 blockade combined with PD-1/P-selectin immunomodulators impedes breast cancer brain metastasis.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2025Article
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17 authors at 14 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Historically, breast cancer tumors have been considered immunologically quiescent, with the majority of tumors demonstrating low lymphocyte infiltration, low mutational burden, and modest objective response rates to anti-PD-1/PD-L1 monotherapy. Tumor and immunologic profiling has shed light on potential mechanisms of immune evasion in breast cancer, as well as unique aspects of the tumor microenvironment (TME). These include elements associated with antigen processing and presentation as well as immunosuppressive elements, which may be targeted therapeutically. Examples of such therapeutic strategies include efforts to (1) expand effector T-cells, natural killer (NK) cells and immunostimulatory dendritic cells (DCs), (2) improve antigen presentation, and (3) decrease inhibitory cytokines, tumor-associated M2 macrophages, regulatory T- and B-cells and myeloid derived suppressor cells (MDSCs). The goal of these approaches is to alter the TME, thereby making breast tumors more responsive to immunotherapy. In this review, we summarize key developments in our understanding of antitumor immunity in breast cancer, as well as emerging therapeutic modalities that may leverage that understanding to overcome immunologic resistance.
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