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ReviewBiomedicines2021

Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in the Tumor Microenvironment of Laryngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Juan P Rodrigo, Mario Sánchez-Canteli, Fernando López, Gregory T Wolf, Juan C Hernández-Prera, Michelle D Williams, Stefan M Willems, Alessandro Franchi, Andrés Coca-Pelaz, Alfio Ferlito

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Review in Biomedicines, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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31citing 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

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

  1. Pooled it
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  5. Preoperative inflammatory ratios as predictors of occult nodal disease in supraglottic carcinoma: implications for transoral laser microsurgery planning.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026
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  12. Do The Inflammatory Cells In The Blood And Tissues Have Predictive And Prognostic Value In Benign, Premalignant And Malignant Lesions Of The Larynx?Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2025
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  14. CD8JCO precision oncology · 2024
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  17. Predictive value of tumor budding in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: an update.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2023
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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

10 authors.

Juan P RodrigoDepartment of Otolaryngology, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias-Instituto de Salud del Principado de Asturias (ISPA), 33011 Oviedo, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3063-0890
Mario Sánchez-CanteliDepartment of Otolaryngology, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias-Instituto de Salud del Principado de Asturias (ISPA), 33011 Oviedo, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-0343-0041
Fernando LópezDepartment of Otolaryngology, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias-Instituto de Salud del Principado de Asturias (ISPA), 33011 Oviedo, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-7019-9746
Gregory T WolfDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Juan C Hernández-PreraDepartment of Pathology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
Michelle D WilliamsDepartment of Pathology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Stefan M WillemsDepartment of Pathology, University Medical Center Groningen, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands.
Alessandro FranchiDepartment of Translational Research, School of Medicine, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1332-5838
Andrés Coca-PelazDepartment of Otolaryngology, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias-Instituto de Salud del Principado de Asturias (ISPA), 33011 Oviedo, Spain.
Alfio FerlitoCoordinator of the International Head and Neck Scientific Group, 35125 Padua, Italy.

Funding

Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer CB16/12/00390Instituto de Salud Carlos III PI19/00560
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The presence of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) in the tumor microenvironment has been demonstrated to be of prognostic value in various cancers. In this systematic review and meta-analysis, we investigated the prognostic value of TIL in laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC). We performed a systematic search in PubMed for publications that investigated the prognostic value of TIL in LSCC. A meta-analysis was performed including all studies assessing the association between TIL counts in hematoxylin-eosin (HE)-stained sections, for CD8+ and/or CD3+/CD4+ TIL and overall survival (OS) or disease-free survival (DFS). The pooled meta-analysis showed a favorable prognostic role for stromal TIL in HE sections for OS (HR 0.57, 95% CI 0.36-0.91,

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larynxprognosissquamous cell carcinomatumor-infiltrating lymphocytes

Identifiers

PMID33925205
PMCPMC8145951

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