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ReviewJournal of medical imaging and radiation oncology2022

Impact of DNA damage response defects in cancer cells on response to immunotherapy and radiotherapy.

Daniel Czajkowski, Radosław Szmyd, Harriet E Gee

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Review in Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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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

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  12. DNA Damage and Its Role in Cancer Therapeutics.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Daniel CzajkowskiUniversity of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Radosław SzmydGenome Integrity Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Harriet E GeeUniversity of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7397-8585

Funding

University of Otago
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The DNA damage response (DDR) is a complex set of downstream pathways triggered in response to DNA damage to maintain genomic stability. Many tumours exhibit mutations which inactivate components of the DDR, making them prone to the accumulation of DNA defects. These can both facilitate the development of tumours and provide potential targets for novel therapeutic interventions. The inhibition of the DDR has been shown to induce radiosensitivity in certain cancers, rendering them susceptible to treatment with radiotherapy and improving the therapeutic window. Moreover, DDR defects are a strong predictor of patient response to immune checkpoint inhibition (ICI). The ability to target the DDR selectively has the potential to expand the tumour neoantigen repertoire, thus increasing tumour immunogenicity and facilitating a CD8+ T and NK cell response against cancer cells. Combinatorial approaches, which seek to integrate DDR inhibition with radiotherapy and immunotherapy, have shown promise in early trials. Further studies are necessary to understand these synergies and establish reliable biomarkers.

Indexed as

ImmunotherapyNeoplasmsDNA DamageHumansMutationcancerDNA damage responsedouble-strand breaksimmunotherapyradiotherapy

Identifiers

PMID35460184
PMCPMC9321602

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