Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34305041›Full record

ReviewTrends in cancer2021

Immunity beyond cancer cells: perspective from tumor tissue.

Shengyu Gao, Ting-Wei Hsu, Ming O Li

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

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
30citing papers in PubMed
4.6field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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, 66 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 1 institution in 1 country.

Shengyu GaoImmunology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA; Louis V. Gerstner Jr Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Ting-Wei HsuImmunology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA; Graduate Program in Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Cell and Developmental Biology, and Molecular Biology, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Cornell University, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Ming O LiImmunology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA; Louis V. Gerstner Jr Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA. Electronic address: lim@mskcc.org.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · US

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI Nicholas D Socci · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
Adaptive-Innate Immune Crosstalk in TGF-B Control of Peripheral T Cell ToleranceR01AI122264 · NIAID · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI LI, MING · 2016 to 2020
$2.6M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI122264
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Investigation of cancer as a cell-level disease has led to the development of cancer cell-directed therapies including cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL)-based immunotherapy; yet, many patients are refractory to these modalities of cancer treatment and acquired resistance frequently occurs. Of note, cancer environment controls the manifestation of cancerous cell phenotype. Helper T (Th) cells orchestrate immune defense responses targeting cancer cells as well as the tumor microenvironment. Recent studies have shown that in addition to interferon (IFN)-γ-producing Th1 cells, interleukin (IL)-4-producing Th2 cells function as potent anticancer effectors in part by promoting tumor stroma reconfiguration and tumor tissue repair. Such Th cell-mediated tissue-level immunity may be harnessed for novel modalities of cancer environment immunotherapy.

Indexed as

NeoplasmsTh1 CellsHumansTh2 CellsT-Lymphocytes, CytotoxicT-Lymphocytes, Helper-InducerTumor Microenvironmentcancer cellcancer environmentcytotoxic T lymphocyteimmunotherapyTh1 cellTh2 cell

Identifiers

PMID34305041
PMCPMC8541902
OpenAlexW3184450707

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Registered trials

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