Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34209724›Full record

ReviewCancers2021

T Cell Defects and Immunotherapy in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia.

Elisavet Vlachonikola, Kostas Stamatopoulos, Anastasia Chatzidimitriou

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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 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 25% 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Bruton's Tyrosine Kinase (BTK) Mutations in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL): A Clinical View.Mediterranean journal of hematology and infectious diseases · 2025
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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 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Elisavet VlachonikolaCentre for Research and Technology Hellas, Institute of Applied Biosciences, 57001 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Kostas StamatopoulosCentre for Research and Technology Hellas, Institute of Applied Biosciences, 57001 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Anastasia ChatzidimitriouCentre for Research and Technology Hellas, Institute of Applied Biosciences, 57001 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki · GRCentre for Research and Technology Hellas · GRKarolinska Institutet · SE

Funding

European Regional Development Fund of the European Union and Greek National Funds through the Operational Program Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation under the call RESEARCH - CREATE - INNOVATE Τ2ΕΔΚ-02437
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the past few years, independent studies have highlighted the relevance of the tumor microenvironment (TME) in cancer, revealing a great variety of TME-related predictive markers, as well as identifying novel therapeutic targets in the TME. Cancer immunotherapy targets different components of the immune system and the TME at large in order to reinforce effector mechanisms or relieve inhibitory and suppressive signaling. Currently, it constitutes a clinically validated treatment for many cancers, including chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), an incurable malignancy of mature B lymphocytes with great dependency on microenvironmental signals. Although immunotherapy represents a promising therapeutic option with encouraging results in CLL, the dysfunctional T cell compartment remains a major obstacle in such approaches. In the scope of this review, we outline the current immunotherapeutic treatment options in CLL in the light of recent immunogenetic and functional evidence of T cell impairment. We also highlight possible approaches for overcoming T cell defects and invigorating potent anti-tumor immune responses that would enhance the efficacy of immunotherapy.

Indexed as

chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)immunotherapyT cellstumor microenvironment (TME)

Identifiers

PMID34209724
PMCPMC8268526
OpenAlexW3177421639

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