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ReviewCancers2022

Implications for Immunotherapy of Breast Cancer by Understanding the Microenvironment of a Solid Tumor.

Alexander S Franzén, Martin J Raftery, Gabriele Pecher

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Review in Cancers, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Alexander S FranzénCompetence Center of Immuno-Oncology and Translational Cell Therapy, Department of Hematology, Oncology and Tumorimmunology, CCM, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin Institute of Health @ Charité, 10117 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4169-6652
Martin J RafteryCompetence Center of Immuno-Oncology and Translational Cell Therapy, Department of Hematology, Oncology and Tumorimmunology, CCM, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin Institute of Health @ Charité, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
Gabriele PecherCompetence Center of Immuno-Oncology and Translational Cell Therapy, Department of Hematology, Oncology and Tumorimmunology, CCM, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin Institute of Health @ Charité, 10117 Berlin, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Breast cancer is poorly immunogenic due to immunosuppressive mechanisms produced in part by the tumor microenvironment (TME). The TME is a peritumoral area containing significant quantities of (1) cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAF), (2) tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) and (3) tumor-associated macrophages (TAM). This combination protects the tumor from effective immune responses. How these protective cell types are generated and how the changes in the developing tumor relate to these subsets is only partially understood. Immunotherapies targeting solid tumors have proven ineffective largely due to this protective TME barrier. Therefore, a better understanding of the interplay between the tumor, the tumor microenvironment and immune cells would both advance immunotherapeutic research and lead to more effective immunotherapies. This review will summarize the current understanding of the microenvironment of breast cancer giving implications for future immunotherapeutic strategies.

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breast cancercancer-associated fibroblastsimmunotherapytumor-associated macrophagestumor-infiltrating lymphocytestumor microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID35804950
PMCPMC9264853

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