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ReviewCancers2020

Ferroptosis in Cancer Cell Biology.

Christina M Bebber, Fabienne Müller, Laura Prieto Clemente, Josephine Weber, Silvia von Karstedt

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Review in Cancers, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 223 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
223citing papers in PubMed
28.4field-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

223 citing papers in PubMed, 336 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Ferroptosis in health and disease.Molecular biomedicine · 2026
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  20. Targeting C12ORF49-Mediated Ferroptosis in Hepatocellular Carcinoma.JGH open : an open access journal of gastroenterology and hepatology · 2026
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163 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

Christina M BebberDepartment of Translational Genomics, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Weyertal 155b, 50931 Cologne, Germany.
Fabienne MüllerDepartment of Translational Genomics, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Weyertal 155b, 50931 Cologne, Germany.
Laura Prieto ClementeDepartment of Translational Genomics, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Weyertal 155b, 50931 Cologne, Germany.
Josephine WeberDepartment of Translational Genomics, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Weyertal 155b, 50931 Cologne, Germany.
Silvia von KarstedtDepartment of Translational Genomics, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Weyertal 155b, 50931 Cologne, Germany.
University of Cologne · DE

Funding

Deutsche Krebshilfe 701125509
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A major hallmark of cancer is successful evasion of regulated forms of cell death. Ferroptosis is a recently discovered type of regulated necrosis which, unlike apoptosis or necroptosis, is independent of caspase activity and receptor-interacting protein 1 (RIPK1) kinase activity. Instead, ferroptotic cells die following iron-dependent lipid peroxidation, a process which is antagonised by glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4) and ferroptosis suppressor protein 1 (FSP1). Importantly, tumour cells escaping other forms of cell death have been suggested to maintain or acquire sensitivity to ferroptosis. Therefore, therapeutic exploitation of ferroptosis in cancer has received increasing attention. Here, we systematically review current literature on ferroptosis signalling, cross-signalling to cellular metabolism in cancer and a potential role for ferroptosis in tumour suppression and tumour immunology. By summarising current findings on cell biology relevant to ferroptosis in cancer, we aim to point out new conceptual avenues for utilising ferroptosis in systemic treatment approaches for cancer.

Indexed as

cancercell deathferroptosisGPX4inflammation

Identifiers

PMID31936571
PMCPMC7016816
OpenAlexW2999044683

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