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ReviewESMO open2020

Tailoring precision immunotherapy: coming to a clinic soon?

Shuting Han, Wai Ho Shuen, Who-Whong Wang, Esdy Nazim, Han Chong Toh

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Review in ESMO open, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 27% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Immune biomarkers for head and neck cancer.Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII · 2025
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  3. Application of nanomedicines in tumor immunotherapy.Journal of molecular cell biology · 2025
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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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Shuting HanDivision of Medical Ocology, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Wai Ho ShuenDivision of Medical Ocology, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Who-Whong WangDivision of Medical Ocology, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Esdy NazimDivision of Medical Ocology, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Han Chong TohDivision of Medical Ocology, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore, Singapore. Electronic address: toh.han.chong@singhealth.com.sg.
National Cancer Centre Singapore · SGSingHealth · SG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cell-based and antibody-based cancer immunotherapies have been widely tested across increasing numbers of cancers with an unprecedented number of successful practice-changing immunotherapy clinical trials, achieving significant survival outcomes and, characteristically, some very long-term survivors. Still, a sizeable proportion of patients, especially with solid tumours, do not benefit from immunotherapy. Here, we summarise key literature on immunotherapy biomarkers and resistance mechanisms and discuss potential strategies to overcome such resistance to improve patient outcomes. The ever-expanding understanding of the tumour-immune interaction and the tumour microenvironment allows a real opportunity to identify predictive biomarkers and tailor immune-based therapies, including designing rational combination drugs to enhance clinical outcomes, and to identify patients most likely to benefit from immunotherapy. Where there has never been a precision chemotherapy clinic in the last 70 years since its inception, even with no shortage of trying, the hope and evolution of a functional precision immunotherapy cancer clinic is a much more likely reality.

Indexed as

ImmunotherapyNeoplasmsHumansTumor Microenvironmentbiomarkerscancer immunotherapycell therapyimmune checkpoint inhibitorsprecision immunotherapy

Identifiers

PMID33558033
PMCPMC7046383
OpenAlexW3005472479

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Registered trials

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