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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2022

Association of Cell Death Markers With Tumor Immune Cell Infiltrates After Chemo-Radiation in Cervical Cancer.

Teodora Oltean, Lien Lippens, Kelly Lemeire, Caroline De Tender, Marnik Vuylsteke, Hannelore Denys, Katrien Vandecasteele, Peter Vandenabeele, Sandy Adjemian

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. HMGB1: A Central Node in Cancer Therapy Resistance.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  4. Targeting ferroptosis for precision medicine in cervical cancer.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 2025
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  7. Involvement of HMGB1-mediated ferroptosis in systemic diseases.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Teodora OlteanCell Death and Inflammation Unit, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB)-UGent Center for Inflammation Research (IRC), Ghent, Belgium.
Lien LippensGhent University, Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG), Ghent, Belgium.
Kelly LemeireDepartment of Biomedical Molecular Biology (DBMB), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Caroline De TenderDepartment of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Marnik VuylstekeGnomixx, Melle, Belgium.
Hannelore DenysGhent University, Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG), Ghent, Belgium.
Katrien VandecasteeleGhent University, Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG), Ghent, Belgium.
Peter VandenabeeleCell Death and Inflammation Unit, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB)-UGent Center for Inflammation Research (IRC), Ghent, Belgium.
Sandy AdjemianCell Death and Inflammation Unit, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB)-UGent Center for Inflammation Research (IRC), Ghent, Belgium.
Cancer Research Institute Ghent · BEVIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research · BEGhent University · BEGhent University Hospital · BEVlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Irradiation induces distinct cellular responses such as apoptosis, necroptosis, iron-dependent cell death (a feature of ferroptosis), senescence, and mitotic catastrophe. Several of these outcomes are immunostimulatory and may represent a potential for immunogenic type of cell death (ICD) induced by radiotherapy triggering abscopal effects. The purpose of this study is to determine whether intra-tumoral ICD markers can serve as biomarkers for the prediction of patient's outcomes defined as the metastasis status and survival over a 5-year period. Thirty-eight patients with locally advanced cervical cancer, treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy using cisplatin were included in this study. Pre-treatment tumor biopsy and post-treatment hysterectomy samples were stained for cell death markers and danger associated molecular patterns (DAMPs): cleaved caspase-3 (apoptosis), phosphorylated mixed lineage kinase domain like pseudokinase (pMLKL; necroptosis), glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4; ferroptosis) and 4-hydroxy-2-noneal (4-HNE; ferroptosis), high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) and calreticulin. Although these markers could not predict the patient's outcome in terms of relapse or survival, many significantly correlated with immune cell infiltration. For instance, inducing ferroptosis post-treatment seems to negatively impact immune cell recruitment. Measuring ICD markers could reflect the impact of treatment on the tumor microenvironment with regard to immune cell recruitment and infiltration. One Sentence Summary: Cell death readouts during neoadjuvant chemoradiation in cervical cancer.

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biomarkerscell deathcervical cancerimmunogenic cell deathtumor infiltrating leucocytes

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PMCPMC9316180
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