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ArticleCancers2022

Checkpoint Markers and Tumor Microenvironment: What Do We Know?

Ramya Ephraim, Sarah Fraser, Kulmira Nurgali, Vasso Apostolopoulos

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Article in Cancers, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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21citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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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.

Ramya EphraimInstitute for Health and Sport, Victoria University, Melbourne, VIC 3030, Australia.
Sarah FraserInstitute for Health and Sport, Victoria University, Melbourne, VIC 3030, Australia.
Kulmira NurgaliInstitute for Health and Sport, Victoria University, Melbourne, VIC 3030, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-2597-6929
Vasso ApostolopoulosInstitute for Health and Sport, Victoria University, Melbourne, VIC 3030, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-6788-2771

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The cancer microenvironment, or tumor microenvironment (TME), describes the non-cancerous cells present in the tumor, such as fibroblasts, immune cells, and cells that comprise the blood vessels and proteins produced by all of the cells present in the tumor that support the growth of the cancer cells [...].

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PMID35954452
PMCPMC9367329

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