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ReviewTherapeutic advances in medical oncology2020

PARP inhibition and immune modulation: scientific rationale and perspectives for the treatment of gynecologic cancers.

Elizabeth K Lee, Panagiotis A Konstantinopoulos

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Review in Therapeutic advances in medical oncology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.

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42citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

42 citing papers in PubMed, 60 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Tumor-associated macrophages and platelets in tumor microenvironment and its potential therapeutic role in ovarian cancer.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  10. Patents on PARP-1 Inhibitors for the Management of Cancer from 2017-2023.Recent patents on anti-cancer drug discovery · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Elizabeth K LeeDepartment of Medical Oncology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7533-7853
Panagiotis A KonstantinopoulosDepartment of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1032-1479
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Poly[adenosine diphosphate (ADP) ribose]polymerase (PARP) has multifaceted roles in the maintenance of genomic integrity, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) repair and replication, and the maintenance of immune-system homeostasis. PARP inhibitors are an attractive oncologic therapy, causing direct cancer cell cytotoxicity by propagating DNA damage and indirectly, by various mechanisms of immunostimulation, including activation of the cGAS/STING pathway, paracrine stimulation of dendritic cells, increased T-cell infiltration, and upregulation of death-ligand receptors to increase susceptibility to natural-killer-cell killing. However, these immunostimulatory effects are counterbalanced by PARPi-mediated upregulation of programmed cell-death-ligand 1 (PD-L1), which leads to immunosuppression. Combining PARP inhibition with immune-checkpoint blockade seeks to exploit the immune stimulatory effects of PARP inhibition while negating the immunosuppressive effects of PD-L1 upregulation.

Indexed as

gynecologic cancerimmune-checkpoint inhibitionimmune modulationovarian cancerPARP inhibitorPD-L1STING

Identifiers

PMID32782491
PMCPMC7383615
OpenAlexW3043876358

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