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ReviewCancer discovery2022

Tumor Immune Microenvironment of Brain Metastases: Toward Unlocking Antitumor Immunity.

Matthew R Strickland, Christopher Alvarez-Breckenridge, Justin F Gainor, Priscilla K Brastianos

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In one paragraph

Review in Cancer discovery, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
34citing papers in PubMed
5.2field-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

34 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. The Five-Decade Journey of Small Cell Lung Cancer.Cancer communications (London, England) · 2026
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  10. Neuro-immune cross-talk in cancer.Nature reviews. Cancer · 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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Matthew R StricklandMassachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.ORCID 0000-0001-7845-0712
Christopher Alvarez-BreckenridgeThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.ORCID 0000-0001-5997-6532
Justin F GainorMassachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Priscilla K BrastianosMassachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.ORCID 0000-0003-4470-8425
Massachusetts General Hospital · USThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · US

Funding

Identification of genomic drivers of brain metastases in lung adenocarcinomaR01CA227156 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI BRASTIANOS, PRISCILLA KALIOPI, CARTER, SCOTT · 2018 to 2022
$3.5M
Using MRI and circulating tumor DNA to improve the interpretation of response to immunotherapy and targeted therapy in CNS metastasesR01CA244975 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI BRASTIANOS, PRISCILLA KALIOPI, GERSTNER, ELIZABETH · 2020 to 2024
$3.4M
Identification of genomic drivers of brain metastases in renal cell carcinomaR21CA220253 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI BRASTIANOS, PRISCILLA KALIOPI, CARTER, SCOTT · 2018 to 2019
$421k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA227156NCI NIH HHS R01 CA244975NCI NIH HHS R21 CA220253
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brain metastasis (BrM) is a devastating complication of solid tumors associated with poor outcomes. Immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) have revolutionized the treatment of cancer, but determinants of response are incompletely understood. Given the rising incidence of BrM, improved understanding of immunobiologic principles unique to the central nervous system (CNS) and dissection of those that govern the activity of ICIs are paramount toward unlocking BrM-specific antitumor immunity. In this review, we seek to discuss the current clinical landscape of ICI activity in the CNS and CNS immunobiology, and we focus, in particular, on the role of glial cells in the CNS immune response to BrM. SIGNIFICANCE: There is an urgent need to improve patient selection for and clinical activity of ICIs in patients with cancer with concomitant BrM. Increased understanding of the unique immunobiologic principles that govern response to ICIs in the CNS is critical toward identifying targets in the tumor microenvironment that may potentiate antitumor immunity.

Indexed as

Brain NeoplasmsTumor MicroenvironmentHumansImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsImmune Checkpoint Inhibitors

Identifiers

PMID35394521
PMCPMC11440428
OpenAlexW4224248892

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