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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2022

A New Trend in Cancer Treatment: The Combination of Epigenetics and Immunotherapy.

Zaoqu Liu, Yuqing Ren, Siyuan Weng, Hui Xu, Lifeng Li, Xinwei Han

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
61citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.8field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

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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

61 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 85 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

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Zaoqu LiuDepartment of Interventional Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
Yuqing RenDepartment of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
Siyuan WengDepartment of Interventional Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
Hui XuDepartment of Interventional Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
Lifeng LiInternet Medical and System Applications of National Engineering Laboratory, Zhengzhou, China.
Xinwei HanDepartment of Interventional Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University · CNZhengzhou University · CNHuanghe Science and Technology College · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years, immunotherapy has become a hot spot in the treatment of tumors. As an emerging treatment, it solves many problems in traditional cancer treatment and has now become the main method for cancer treatment. Although immunotherapy is promising, most patients do not respond to treatment or develop resistance. Therefore, in order to achieve a better therapeutic effect, combination therapy has emerged. The combination of immune checkpoint inhibition and epigenetic therapy is one such strategy. In this review, we summarize the current understanding of the key mechanisms of how epigenetic mechanisms affect cancer immune responses and reveal the key role of epigenetic processes in regulating immune cell function and mediating anti-tumor immunity. In addition, we highlight the outlook of combined epigenetic and immune regimens, particularly the combination of immune checkpoint blockade with epigenetic agents, to address the limitations of immunotherapy alone.

Indexed as

Genetic TherapyImmunotherapyAnimalsBiomarkers, TumorCombined Modality TherapyDisease ManagementDisease SusceptibilityEnergy MetabolismEpigenesis, GeneticHumansImmune SystemMolecular Targeted TherapyNeoplasmsBiomarkers, Tumorcancer therapyepigenetic regulationepigeneticsimmune checkpoint therapyimmunotherapyT cells

Identifiers

PMID35140720
PMCPMC8818678
OpenAlexW4211091545

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