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ReviewTranslational gastroenterology and hepatology2020

Novel immunotherapy strategies for treatment of neuroendocrine neoplasms.

Taymeyah Al-Toubah, Mauro Cives, Jonathan Strosberg

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Review in Translational gastroenterology and hepatology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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17citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  2. Thymic neuroendocrine tumours: molecular landscape, immune microenvironment and therapeutic perspectives.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2026
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  16. "Present and future of immunotherapy in Neuroendocrine Tumors".Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Taymeyah Al-ToubahDepartment of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA.
Mauro CivesDepartment of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy.
Jonathan StrosbergDepartment of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) and neuroendocrine carcinomas (NECs) are a heterogeneous family of neoplasms. Well-differentiated tumors are often slow growing and characterized by low tumor mutational burden. Poorly differentiated NECs are aggressive, with an increased mutational burden and higher propensity to express PD-L1. While the therapeutic landscape for neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs) has evolved substantially over the past decade, immunotherapy has been unexplored in NENs until recently. Checkpoint inhibitors such as anti-PD-1 and anti-CTLA-4 agents, bi-specific tumor-targeting antibodies, and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy are examples of treatments that have demonstrated efficacy in other cancers and have recently been investigated in NENs. This review examines the immune landscape of NENs in detail, summarizes recent clinical study results, and discusses potential future directions for immunotherapy.

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Carcinoid tumorsCAR-T cellsimmune checkpointsimmunotherapyPD-1PD-L1

Identifiers

PMID33073049
PMCPMC7530319

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