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ReviewBlood2021

Exploring the pathways to chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Freda K Stevenson, Francesco Forconi, Thomas J Kipps

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In one paragraph

Review in Blood, 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.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
31citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Freda K StevensonSchool of Cancer Sciences, Cancer Research UK Southampton Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
Francesco ForconiSchool of Cancer Sciences, Cancer Research UK Southampton Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-2211-1831
Thomas J KippsCenter for Novel Therapeutics, Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.ORCID 0000-0002-0064-4549
Cancer Research UK · GBUniversity of California San Diego · US

Funding

Non-canonical Wnt-Receptor Signaling and Targeted TherapiesR01CA236361 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI KIPPS, THOMAS J · 2019 to 2023
$3.2M
Cancer Research UK 23669Cancer Research UK 29101Cancer Research UK 29370Cancer Research UK C2750/A23669Cancer Research UK C36811/A29101Cancer Research UK C42023/A29370NCI NIH HHS R01 CA236361
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), increasing knowledge of the biology of the tumor cells has led to transformative improvements in our capacity to assess and treat patients. The dependence of tumor cells on surface immunoglobulin receptor signaling, survival pathways, and accessory cells within the microenvironment has led to a successful double-barreled attack with designer drugs. Studies have revealed that CLL should be classified based on the mutational status of the expressed IGHV sequences into 2 diseases, either unmutated (U) or mutated (M) CLL, each with a distinctive cellular origin, biology, epigenetics/genetics, and clinical behavior. The origin of U-CLL lies among the natural antibody repertoire, and dominance of IGHV1-69 reveals a superantigenic driver. In both U-CLL and M-CLL, a calibrated stimulation of tumor cells by self-antigens apparently generates a dynamic reiterative cycle as cells, protected from apoptosis, transit between blood and tissue sites. But there are differences in outcome, with the balance between proliferation and anergy favoring anergy in M-CLL. Responses are modulated by an array of microenvironmental interactions. Availability of T-cell help is a likely determinant of cell fate, the dependency on which varies between U-CLL and M-CLL, reflecting the different cells of origin, and affecting clinical behavior. Despite such advances, cell-escape strategies, Richter transformation, and immunosuppression remain as challenges, which only may be met by continued research into the biology of CLL.

Indexed as

Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-CellMutationNeoplasm ProteinsReceptors, Antigen, B-CellSignal TransductionTumor MicroenvironmentAnimalsHumansIGHV1-69 protein, humanNeoplasm ProteinsReceptors, Antigen, B-Cell

Identifiers

PMID34075408
PMCPMC8432043
OpenAlexW3164176768

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