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ArticleCancers2021

Plasma Proteomic Analysis in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients Treated with PD-1/PD-L1 Blockade.

Mohamed Eltahir, Johan Isaksson, Johanna Sofia Margareta Mattsson, Klas Kärre, Johan Botling, Martin Lord, Sara M Mangsbo, Patrick Micke

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Article in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
25citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

25 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Development of DPP-4-resistant CXCL9-Fc and CXCL10-Fc chemokines for effective cancer immunotherapy.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  10. Proteomics appending a complementary dimension to precision oncotherapy.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2024
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  17. Efficacy of Pembrolizumab in Advanced Melanoma: A Narrative Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  18. Targeting CXCL9/10/11-CXCR3 axis: an important component of tumor-promoting and antitumor immunity.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 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

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mohamed EltahirDepartment of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, 751 85 Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-1999-8870
Johan IsakssonDepartment of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, 751 85 Uppsala, Sweden.
Johanna Sofia Margareta MattssonDepartment of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, 751 85 Uppsala, Sweden.
Klas KärreDepartment of Microbiology, Cell and Tumor Biology, Karolinska Institute, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
Johan BotlingDepartment of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, 751 85 Uppsala, Sweden.
Martin LordDepartment of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 751 24 Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-3238-3187
Sara M MangsboDepartment of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 751 24 Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-1355-2678
Patrick MickeDepartment of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, 751 85 Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-1210-5961
Uppsala University · SEKarolinska Institutet · SE

Funding

Cancerfonden CAN2015/709 and CAN2018/816Sjöberg Foundation #1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Checkpoint inhibitors have been approved for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, only a minority of patients demonstrate a durable clinical response. PD-L1 scoring is currently the only biomarker measure routinely used to select patients for immunotherapy, but its predictive accuracy is modest. The aim of our study was to evaluate a proteomic assay for the analysis of patient plasma in the context of immunotherapy. Pretreatment plasma samples from 43 NSCLC patients who received anti-PD-(L)1 therapy were analyzed using a proximity extension assay (PEA) to quantify 92 different immune oncology-related proteins. The plasma protein levels were associated with clinical and histopathological parameters, as well as therapy response and survival. Unsupervised hierarchical cluster analysis revealed two patient groups with distinct protein profiles associated with high and low immune protein levels, designated as "hot" and "cold". Further supervised cluster analysis based on T-cell activation markers showed that higher levels of T-cell activation markers were associated with longer progression-free survival (PFS) (

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biomarkersimmune checkpoint inhibitorsliquid biopsylung cancerPD-L1

Identifiers

PMID34206510
PMCPMC8268315
OpenAlexW3173643763

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