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ArticleCell reports. Medicine2022

Immuno-genomic profiling of biopsy specimens predicts neoadjuvant chemotherapy response in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

Shota Sasagawa, Hiroaki Kato, Koji Nagaoka, Changbo Sun, Motohiro Imano, Takao Sato, Todd A Johnson, Masashi Fujita, Kazuhiro Maejima, Yuki Okawa and 3 more

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Article in Cell reports. Medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Shota SasagawaLaboratory for Cancer Genomics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan.
Hiroaki KatoDepartment of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kindai University, Osaka 577-8502, Japan.
Koji NagaokaDepartment of Immuno-therapeutics, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.
Changbo SunDepartment of Immuno-therapeutics, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.
Motohiro ImanoDepartment of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kindai University, Osaka 577-8502, Japan.
Takao SatoDepartment of Pathology, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka 577-8502, Japan.
Todd A JohnsonLaboratory for Cancer Genomics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan.
Masashi FujitaLaboratory for Cancer Genomics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan.
Kazuhiro MaejimaLaboratory for Cancer Genomics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan.
Yuki OkawaLaboratory for Cancer Genomics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan.
Kazuhiro KakimiDepartment of Immuno-therapeutics, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.
Takushi YasudaDepartment of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kindai University, Osaka 577-8502, Japan.
Hidewaki NakagawaLaboratory for Cancer Genomics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan. Electronic address: hidewaki@riken.jp.
RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences · JPKindai University · JPUniversity of Tokyo Hospital · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is one of the most aggressive cancers and is primarily treated with platinum-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). Some ESCCs respond well to NAC. However, biomarkers to predict NAC sensitivity and their response mechanism in ESCC remain unclear. We perform whole-genome sequencing and RNA sequencing analysis of 141 ESCC biopsy specimens before NAC treatment to generate a machine-learning-based diagnostic model to predict NAC reactivity in ESCC and analyzed the association between immunogenomic features and NAC response. Neutrophil infiltration may play an important role in ESCC response to NAC. We also demonstrate that specific copy-number alterations and copy-number signatures in the ESCC genome are significantly associated with NAC response. The interactions between the tumor genome and immune features of ESCC are likely to be a good indicator of therapeutic capability and a therapeutic target for ESCC, and machine learning prediction for NAC response is useful.

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Esophageal NeoplasmsEsophageal Squamous Cell CarcinomaBiopsyDNA Copy Number VariationsHumansNeoadjuvant TherapychemotherapyChemotherapy responsecopy-number variantsesophageal squamous cell carcinomamachine learningneutrophils

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PMID35944530
PMCPMC9418738
OpenAlexW4292691844

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