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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2019

Role of Tumor-Mediated Dendritic Cell Tolerization in Immune Evasion.

Nicholas C DeVito, Michael P Plebanek, Bala Theivanthiran, Brent A Hanks

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers.

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61citing papers in PubMed
4.4field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

61 citing papers in PubMed, 91 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Reprogramming the Immune Landscape of Inflammatory Breast Cancer.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  12. Circular RNAs: key players in tumor immune evasion.Molecular and cellular biochemistry · 2025
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  13. Potential biological roles of exosomal non-coding RNAs in breast cancer.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2025
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  16. Nanotechnology Applications in Breast Cancer Immunotherapy.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Nicholas C DeVitoDivision of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, NC, United States.
Michael P PlebanekDivision of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, NC, United States.
Bala TheivanthiranDivision of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, NC, United States.
Brent A HanksDivision of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, NC, United States.
Duke Cancer InstituteDuke Medical Center · USDuke University · US

Funding

Women's Cancer Research ProgramP30CA014236 · NCI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI JOHN N. NORTON · 1985 to 2026
$174.8M
Melanoma-mediated Dendritic Cell Tolerization and Immune EvasionK08CA191063 · NCI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI HANKS, BRENT ALLEN · 2015 to 2019
$826k
NCI NIH HHS K08 CA191063NCI NIH HHS P30 CA014236
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The vast majority of cancer-related deaths are due to metastasis, a process that requires evasion of the host immune system. In addition, a significant percentage of cancer patients do not benefit from our current immunotherapy arsenal due to either primary or secondary immunotherapy resistance. Importantly, select subsets of dendritic cells (DCs) have been shown to be indispensable for generating responses to checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy. These observations are consistent with the critical role of DCs in antigen cross-presentation and the generation of effective anti-tumor immunity. Therefore, the evolution of efficient tumor-extrinsic mechanisms to modulate DCs is expected to be a potent strategy to escape immunosurveillance and various immunotherapy strategies. Despite this critical role, little is known regarding the methods by which cancers subvert DC function. Herein, we focus on those select mechanisms utilized by developing cancers to co-opt and tolerize local DC populations. We discuss the reported mechanisms utilized by cancers to induce DC tolerization in the tumor microenvironment, describing various parallels between the evolution of these mechanisms and the process of mesenchymal transformation involved in tumorigenesis and metastasis, and we highlight strategies to reverse these mechanisms in order to enhance the efficacy of the currently available checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapies.

Indexed as

Antigen PresentationTumor EscapeAntigens, NeoplasmDendritic CellsHumansImmunotherapyNeoplasm MetastasisNeoplasmsTumor MicroenvironmentAntigens, Neoplasmcancer immunotherapydendritic cell immunotherapydendritic cell toleranceepithelial-to-mesenchymal transitionexosomesimmune checkpoint inhibitionmetastasismyeloid-derived suppressor cells

Identifiers

PMID31921140
PMCPMC6914818
OpenAlexW2994962061

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