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ReviewCancers2020

Current Progresses and Challenges of Immunotherapy in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.

Karan Mediratta, Sara El-Sahli, Vanessa D'Costa, Lisheng Wang

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Review in Cancers, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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

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  4. Current Status of Research on Losartan in Tumour Therapy.Journal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2026
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  11. Nan fang yi ke da xue xue bao = Journal of Southern Medical University · 2025
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  13. Tumor-intrinsic CDC42BPB confers resistance to anti-PD-1 immune checkpoint blockade in breast cancer.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2024
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  17. Integration of multiomics analyses reveals unique insights into CD24-mediated immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment of breast cancer.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2024
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  18. PGRN inhibits CD8Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII · 2024
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1 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

4 authors.

Karan MedirattaDepartment of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON K1H 8M5, Canada.
Sara El-SahliDepartment of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON K1H 8M5, Canada.
Vanessa D'CostaDepartment of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON K1H 8M5, Canada.
Lisheng WangDepartment of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON K1H 8M5, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-4161-9905

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With improved understanding of the immunogenicity of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), immunotherapy has emerged as a promising candidate to treat this lethal disease owing to the lack of specific targets and effective treatments. While immune checkpoint inhibition (ICI) has been effectively used in immunotherapy for several types of solid tumor, monotherapies targeting programmed death 1 (PD-1), its ligand PD-L1, or cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated protein 4 (CTLA-4) have shown little efficacy for TNBC patients. Over the past few years, various therapeutic candidates have been reviewed, attempting to improve ICI efficacy on TNBC through combinatorial treatment. In this review, we describe the clinical limitations of ICI and illustrate candidates from an immunological, pharmacological, and metabolic perspective that may potentiate therapy to improve the outcomes of TNBC patients.

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cancer metabolismcancer nanomedicinechimeric antigen receptorcombination therapyimmune checkpoint inhibitorimmunotherapytriple-negative breast cancertumor antigenstumor microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID33256070
PMCPMC7761500

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