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ReviewFrontiers in molecular biosciences2021

The Role of PI3K Inhibition in the Treatment of Breast Cancer, Alone or Combined With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors.

Zhizhu Zhang, Ann Richmond

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Review in Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

30 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Engineering selective PI3KActa pharmaceutica Sinica. B · 2026
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  4. Hormone Receptor Positive/HER2 Negative Breast Carcinoma: Association ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zhizhu ZhangDepartment of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States.
Ann RichmondDepartment of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States.
Vanderbilt University · US

Funding

Optimizing Response to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy for Breast Cancer: A Role for Inhibitors of the PI3K pathwayR01CA243326 · NCI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI RICHMOND, ANN, YAN, CHI · 2020 to 2024
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BLR&D Merit Review Research Career Scientist (RCS) Award (IK6)IK6BX005225 · VA · VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION · PI RICHMOND, ANN · 2020 to 2023
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BLRD VA IK6 BX005225NCI NIH HHS R01 CA243326
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dysregulation of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) signaling is highly implicated in tumorigenesis, disease progression, and the development of resistance to the current standard of care treatments in breast cancer patients. This review discusses the role of PI3K pathway in breast cancer and evaluates the clinical development of PI3K inhibitors in both early and metastatic breast cancer settings. Further, this review examines the evidence for the potential synergistic benefit for the combination treatment of PI3K inhibition and immunotherapy in breast cancer treatment.

Indexed as

breast cancerimmune checkpoint inhibitorsMDSCPI3K inhibitiontumor immune microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID34026830
PMCPMC8139556
OpenAlexW3161896632

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