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ArticleJournal for immunotherapy of cancer2020

Defining tumor resistance to PD-1 pathway blockade: recommendations from the first meeting of the SITC Immunotherapy Resistance Taskforce.

Harriet M Kluger, Hussein A Tawbi, Maria L Ascierto, Michaela Bowden, Margaret K Callahan, Edward Cha, Helen X Chen, Charles G Drake, David M Feltquate, Robert L Ferris and 15 more

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In one paragraph

Article in Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06365619 (Phase II Study of Neoadjuvant Ipilimumab/Nivolumab for Patients With Recurrent, High Risk, Resectable Melanoma), which is not on this map. Cited by 200 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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200citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
10.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

NCT06365619 phase2recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2026, after this paper: background citation

Phase II Study of Neoadjuvant Ipilimumab/Nivolumab for Patients With Recurrent, High Risk, Resectable Melanoma

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of UtahRan2026 to 2030Enrolled25ConditionsMelanomaArmsIpilimumab, Nivolumab
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

200 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 263 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. RP1 Combined With Nivolumab in Advanced Anti-PD-1-Failed Melanoma (IGNYTE).Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2025
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  8. BO-112 Plus Pembrolizumab for Patients With Anti-PD-1-Resistant Advanced Melanoma: Phase II Clinical Trial SPOTLIGHT-203.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2025
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  11. Effective TIL Therapy for Patients with Checkpoint-Resistant Melanoma without Lymphodepleting Regimens Requires IFNα.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2025
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140 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

25 authors at 15 institutions in 2 countries.

Harriet M Kluger *Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States.
Hussein A Tawbi *MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States.
Maria L AsciertoAstraZeneca, London, United Kingdom.
Michaela BowdenBristol-Meyers Squibb, New York, NY, United States.
Margaret K CallahanMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States.
Edward ChaGenentech, San Francisco, CA, United States.
Helen X ChenNational Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States.
Charles G DrakeColumbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States.
David M FeltquateBristol-Meyers Squibb, New York, NY, United States.
Robert L FerrisUPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
James L GulleyNational Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6569-2912
Shilpa GuptaCleavland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States.
Rachel W HumphreyCytomX Therapeutics, San Francisco, CA, United States.
Theresa M LaValleeParker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, San Francisco, CA, United States.
Dung T LeJohn Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Vanessa M Hubbard-LuceyCancer Research Institute, New York, NY, United States.
Vassiliki A PapadimitrakopoulouMD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States.
Michael A PostowMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States.
Eric H RubinMerck & Co, Kenilworth, NJ, United States.
Elad SharonNational Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-0044-9719
Janis M TaubeJohn Hopkins Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Suzanne L TopalianJohn Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Roberta ZappasodiMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States.
Mario SznolYale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States.
Ryan J SullivanMassachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States rsullivan7@mgh.harvard.edu.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · USNational Cancer Institute · USBristol-Myers Squibb (United States) · USJohns Hopkins University · USThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · USYale University · USAstraZeneca (United Kingdom) · GBBloomberg (United States) · USCancer Research Institute · USColumbia University Irving Medical Center · USCytomX Therapeutics (United States) · USMassachusetts General Hospital · USMerck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA (United States) · USParker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy · USUPMC Hillman Cancer Center · US

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI Nicholas D Socci · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
Yale Clinical and Translational Science Award (U Component)UL1TR001863 · NCATS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI John H. Krystal, LUCILA OHNO-MACHADO · 2016 to 2026
$102.9M
Clinical trials employing cancer vaccine combination therapiesZIABC010945 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI GULLEY, JAMES L. · 2009 to 2022
$9.6M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001863NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As the field of cancer immunotherapy continues to advance at a fast pace, treatment approaches and drug development are evolving rapidly to maximize patient benefit. New agents are commonly evaluated for activity in patients who had previously received a programmed death receptor 1 (PD-1)/programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) inhibitor as standard of care or in an investigational study. However, because of the kinetics and patterns of response to PD-1/PD-L1 blockade, and the lack of consistency in the clinical definitions of resistance to therapy, the design of clinical trials of new agents and interpretation of results remains an important challenge. To address this unmet need, the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer convened a multistakeholder taskforce-consisting of experts in cancer immunotherapy from academia, industry, and government-to generate consensus clinical definitions for resistance to PD-(L)1 inhibitors in three distinct scenarios: primary resistance, secondary resistance, and progression after treatment discontinuation. The taskforce generated consensus on several key issues such as the timeframes that delineate each type of resistance, the necessity for confirmatory scans, and identified caveats for each specific resistance classification. The goal of this effort is to provide guidance for clinical trial design and to support analyses of emerging molecular and cellular data surrounding mechanisms of resistance.

Indexed as

Biomarkers, TumorFemaleHumansImmunotherapyMaleNeoplasmsProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptorBiomarkers, TumorProgrammed Cell Death 1 Receptoroncology

Identifiers

PMID32238470
PMCPMC7174063
OpenAlexW3014748351

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