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ReviewCancer communications (London, England)2022

The diagnosis, classification, and treatment of sarcoma in this era of artificial intelligence and immunotherapy.

Amandine Crombé, Mathtieu Roulleau-Dugage, Antoine Italiano

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Review in Cancer communications (London, England), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models for Cancer Immunotherapy.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  5. Focused Ultrasound for Sarcomas: A Narrative Review.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2025
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  12. Cold and hot tumors: from molecular mechanisms to targeted therapy.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2024
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  18. Staging Systems and Nomograms for Soft Tissue Sarcoma.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2023
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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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Amandine CrombéDepartment of Imaging, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, F-33076, France.
Mathtieu Roulleau-DugageDepartment of Medicine, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, Ile de France, F-94800, France.
Antoine ItalianoFaculty of Medicine, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, F-33000, France.ORCID 0000-0002-8540-5351
Université de Bordeaux · FRInstitut Gustave Roussy · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Soft-tissue sarcomas (STS) represent a group of rare and heterogeneous tumors associated with several challenges, including incorrect or late diagnosis, the lack of clinical expertise, and limited therapeutic options. Digital pathology and radiomics represent transformative technologies that appear promising for improving the accuracy of cancer diagnosis, characterization and monitoring. Herein, we review the potential role of the application of digital pathology and radiomics in managing patients with STS. We have particularly described the main results and the limits of the studies using radiomics to refine diagnosis or predict the outcome of patients with soft-tissue sarcomas. We also discussed the current limitation of implementing radiomics in routine settings. Standard management approaches for STS have not improved since the early 1970s. Immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatment; nonetheless, immuno-oncology agents have not yet been approved for patients with STS. However, several lines of evidence indicate that immunotherapy may represent an efficient therapeutic strategy for this group of diseases. Thus, we emphasized the remarkable potential of immunotherapy in sarcoma treatment by focusing on recent data regarding the immune landscape of these tumors. We have particularly emphasized the fact that the development of immunotherapy for sarcomas is not an aspect of histology (except for alveolar soft-part sarcoma) but rather that of the tumor microenvironment. Future studies investigating immunotherapy strategies in sarcomas should incorporate at least the presence of tertiary lymphoid structures as a stratification factor in their design, besides including a strong translational program that will allow for a better understanding of the determinants involved in sensitivity and treatment resistance to immune-oncology agents.

Indexed as

SarcomaSoft Tissue NeoplasmsArtificial IntelligenceHumansImmunotherapyTumor Microenvironmentartificial intelligencedigital pathologyimmunotherapyradiomicssarcoma

Identifiers

PMID36260064
PMCPMC9759765
OpenAlexW4306796130

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