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ReviewCancers2020

Clinical Impact of Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes and PD-L1-Positive Cells as Prognostic and Predictive Biomarkers in Urological Malignancies and Retroperitoneal Sarcoma.

Makito Miyake, Shunta Hori, Takuya Owari, Yuki Oda, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Yasushi Nakai, Tomomi Fujii, Kiyohide Fujimoto

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In one paragraph

Review in Cancers, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Makito MiyakeDepartment of Urology, Nara Medical University, Nara 634-8522, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-9503-7356
Shunta HoriDepartment of Urology, Nara Medical University, Nara 634-8522, Japan.
Takuya OwariDepartment of Urology, Nara Medical University, Nara 634-8522, Japan.
Yuki OdaDepartment of Urology, Nara Medical University, Nara 634-8522, Japan.
Yoshihiro TatsumiDepartment of Urology, Nara Medical University, Nara 634-8522, Japan.
Yasushi NakaiDepartment of Urology, Nara Medical University, Nara 634-8522, Japan.
Tomomi FujiiDepartment of Diagnostic Pathology, Nara Medical University, Nara 634-8522, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-7207-4127
Kiyohide FujimotoDepartment of Urology, Nara Medical University, Nara 634-8522, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-1507-2464
Nara Medical University · JP

Funding

JSPS KAKENHI 16K20159JSPS KAKENHI 26861290Nara Medical University Grant-in-Aid for the Collaborative Research Projects Fiscal Years. 2015-2016
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over the past decade, an "immunotherapy tsunami", more specifically that involving immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), has overtaken the oncological field. The interaction and cross-talk among tumor cells and several immune cells in the tumor microenvironment are dynamic and complex processes. As immune contexture can vary widely across different types of primary tumors and tumor microenvironments, there is still a significant lack of clinically available definitive biomarkers to predict patient response to ICIs, especially in urogenital malignancies. An increasing body of evidence evaluating urological malignancies has proven that tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) are a double-edged sword in cancer. There is an urgent need to shed light on the functional heterogeneity in the tumor-infiltrating immune system and to explore its prognostic impact following surgery and other treatments. Notably, we emphasized the difference in the immunological profile among urothelial carcinomas arising from different primary origins, the bladder, renal pelvis, and ureter. Significant differences in the density of FOXP3-positive TILs, CD204-positive tumor-infiltrating macrophages, PD-L1-positive cells, and colony-stimulating factors were observed. This review discusses two topics: (i) the prognostic impact of TILs and (ii) predictive biomarkers for ICIs, to shed light on lymphocyte migration in four solid tumors, the urothelial carcinoma, renal cell carcinoma, prostate cancer, and retroperitoneal sarcoma.

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immune cellsimmune checkpoint inhibitorprognosisprostate cancerrenal cell carcinomaretroperitoneal sarcomatreatment responsetumor-infiltrating lymphocytetumor microenvironmenturothelial carcinoma

Identifiers

PMID33121123
PMCPMC7692684
OpenAlexW3096967654

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