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Trial reportClinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research2021

Expression of T-Cell Exhaustion Molecules and Human Endogenous Retroviruses as Predictive Biomarkers for Response to Nivolumab in Metastatic Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma.

Miriam Ficial, Opeyemi A Jegede, Miriam Sant'Angelo, Yue Hou, Abdallah Flaifel, Jean-Christophe Pignon, David A Braun, Megan Wind-Rotolo, Maura A Sticco-Ivins, Paul J Catalano and 10 more

Open access · bronzeAbstract readClinical Trial, Phase IIIMulticenter StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
58citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
6.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

58 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 80 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Transcriptomic Correlates of Tumor Cell PD-L1 Expression and Response to Nivolumab Monotherapy in Metastatic Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2022
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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

20 authors at 9 institutions in 2 countries.

Miriam FicialDepartment of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.ORCID 0000-0002-2005-9267
Opeyemi A JegedeDepartment of Data Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.ORCID 0000-0003-1763-8214
Miriam Sant'AngeloDepartment of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Yue HouTranslational Immunogenomics Laboratory, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.
Abdallah FlaifelDepartment of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.ORCID 0000-0002-6705-018X
Jean-Christophe PignonDepartment of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
David A BraunHarvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Megan Wind-RotoloBristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, New Jersey.ORCID 0000-0001-8063-9928
Maura A Sticco-IvinsDepartment of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Paul J CatalanoHarvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Gordon J FreemanHarvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.ORCID 0000-0002-7210-5616
Arlene H SharpeDepartment of Immunology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
F Stephen HodiHarvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Robert J MotzerDepartment of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.ORCID 0000-0001-6925-2327
Catherine J WuHarvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.ORCID 0000-0002-3348-5054
Michael B AtkinsGeorgetown-Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Washington, DC.
David F McDermottHarvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Sachet A ShuklaTranslational Immunogenomics Laboratory, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.ORCID 0000-0003-2445-3584
Toni K ChoueiriHarvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Sabina SignorettiDepartment of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. ssignoretti@bwh.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-5000-9105
Brigham and Women's Hospital · USHarvard University · USBroad Institute · USDana-Farber Cancer Institute · USBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · USBoston Biomedical Research Institute · USBristol-Myers Squibb (Sweden) · SEGeorgetown University Medical Center · USMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · US

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI Hongbiao Carl Lekaye · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
VectorP30CA006516 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE · PI JENNIFER W MACK · 1985 to 2026
$330.6M
Treating the P13-Kinase/AKTP50CA101942 · NCI · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI David McDermott · 2003 to 2026
$53.4M
Immunogenomic analytical approaches for research and clinical applicationsR50CA211482 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI SHUKLA, SACHET ASHOK · 2016 to 2020
$1.3M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA006516NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748NCI NIH HHS P50 CA101942NCI NIH HHS R50 CA211482
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeWe sought to validate levels of CD8 EXPERIMENTAL

designTumor tissues (nivo:

resultsIn the nivo (but not evero) arm, patients with high-IF biomarker density (24/116, 20.7%) had higher ORR (45.8% vs. 19.6%,

conclusionsHigh levels of CD8

Indexed as

Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsBiomarkers, TumorCarcinoma, Renal CellEndogenous RetrovirusesEverolimusFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHumansKidney NeoplasmsLymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingMaleNivolumabPrognosisRetrospective StudiesSurvival RateT-LymphocytesBiomarkers, TumorEverolimusNivolumabViral Envelope Proteins

Identifiers

PMID33219016
PMCPMC8443005
OpenAlexW3104068360

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Registered trials

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