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ReviewCancers2021

Progress for Immunotherapy in Inflammatory Breast Cancer and Emerging Barriers to Therapeutic Efficacy.

Regina M Koch, Daniel R Principe, Jose L Cataneo, Ajay Rana

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In one paragraph

Review in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 29% 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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Reprogramming the Immune Landscape of Inflammatory Breast Cancer.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Regina M KochDepartment of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Daniel R PrincipeDepartment of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4355-6597
Jose L CataneoDepartment of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Ajay RanaDepartment of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
University of Illinois Chicago · USIllinois College · US

Funding

Augmenting Pancreatic Cancer Immunotherapy via TGFβ Pathway InhibitionF30CA236031 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI PRINCIPE, DANIEL R · 2019 to 2023
$256k
BLR&D Research Career Scientist Award ApplicationIK6BX004855 · VA · JESSE BROWN VA MEDICAL CENTER · PI AJAY NMN RANA · 2020 to 2026
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BLRD VA IK6 BX004855NCI NIH HHS F30 CA236031NCI NIH HHS F30CA236031U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs I01BX002703
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a rare and aggressive subtype of breast cancer that carries a particularly poor prognosis. Despite the efficacy of immunotherapy in other difficult to treat forms of breast cancer, progress for immunotherapy in IBC has been difficult. Though immunotherapy has been under clinical investigation in IBC since the 1970s, few approaches have shown significant therapeutic efficacy, and no immunotherapy regimens are currently used in the treatment of IBC. Here, we provide a comprehensive summary of what is known about the immune composition of IBC tumors, clinical and basic science evidence describing the role for immune checkpoints such as PD-L1 in IBC pathobiology, as well as past and present attempts to advance ICIs in the treatment of IBC.

Indexed as

immune checkpoint inhibitorsimmunotherapyinflammatory breast cancertumor immunologytumor microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID34067257
PMCPMC8196819
OpenAlexW3164657736

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