Evidence map›Paper›PMID 36647169›Full record

ReviewExperimental hematology & oncology2023

Increasing cure rates of solid tumors by immune checkpoint inhibitors.

Weijie Ma, Ruobing Xue, Zheng Zhu, Hizra Farrukh, Wenru Song, Tianhong Li, Lei Zheng, Chong-Xian Pan

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In one paragraph

Review in Experimental hematology & oncology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 81 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
81citing papers in PubMed, 7 pooled it
29.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

81 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 117 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Cancer-related fatigue during treatment with neoadjuvant and/or adjuvant immune checkpoint inhibitors: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026
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  3. Systemic treatment of immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced psoriasis: Inference-based guidance.Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV · 2025
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  4. Efficacy and safety of a combination treatment of immune checkpoint inhibitors in metastatic breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2024
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  7. Immune checkpoint inhibitor-related hearing loss: a systematic review and analysis of individual patient data.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2023
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  10. B cells in cancer: functions, mechanisms and therapeutic advances.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026
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  15. Advances in Cancer Immunotherapy for Solid Tumors.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  16. Overcoming tumour resistance in cancer immunotherapy through predictive and pharmacodynamic biomarkers.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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21 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Weijie Ma *Chinese American Hematologist and Oncologist Network, New York, NY, USA.
Ruobing Xue *Chinese American Hematologist and Oncologist Network, New York, NY, USA.
Zheng Zhu *Chinese American Hematologist and Oncologist Network, New York, NY, USA.
Hizra FarrukhDepartment of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Wenru SongChinese American Hematologist and Oncologist Network, New York, NY, USA.
Tianhong LiChinese American Hematologist and Oncologist Network, New York, NY, USA. thli@ucdavis.edu.
Lei ZhengChinese American Hematologist and Oncologist Network, New York, NY, USA. lzheng6@jhmi.edu.
Chong-Xian PanChinese American Hematologist and Oncologist Network, New York, NY, USA. Chongxian_pan@hms.harvard.edu.
Association of Black Cardiologists · USBrigham and Women's Hospital · USDartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center · US

Funding

Transforming Human Pancreatic Cancer Into An Immunologic DiseaseP01CA247886 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI JAFFEE, ELIZABETH M. · 2021 to 2025
$12.7M
Targeting the Immunosuppressive Tumor Microenvironment of Pancreatic Cancer with a Neoadjuvant Platform Clinical TrialR01CA197296 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI William Reece Burns, Eric Christenson · 2015 to 2026
$5.7M
BLRD VA I01 BX003895NCI NIH HHS P01 CA247886NCI NIH HHS R01 CA197296
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunotherapy has become the central pillar of cancer therapy. Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), a major category of tumor immunotherapy, reactivate preexisting anticancer immunity. Initially, ICIs were approved only for advanced and metastatic cancers in the salvage setting after or concurrent with chemotherapy at a response rate of around 20-30% with a few exceptions. With significant progress over the decade, advances in immunotherapy have led to numerous clinical trials investigating ICIs as neoadjuvant and/or adjuvant therapies for resectable solid tumors. The promising results of these trials have led to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approvals of ICIs as neoadjuvant or adjuvant therapies for non-small cell lung cancer, melanoma, triple-negative breast cancer, and bladder cancer, and the list continues to grow. This therapy represents a paradigm shift in cancer treatment, as many early-stage cancer patients could be cured with the introduction of immunotherapy in the early stages of cancer. Therefore, this topic became one of the main themes at the 2021 China Cancer Immunotherapy Workshop co-organized by the Chinese American Hematologist and Oncologist Network, the China National Medical Products Administration and the Tsinghua University School of Medicine. This review article summarizes the current landscape of ICI-based immunotherapy, emphasizing the new clinical developments of ICIs as curative neoadjuvant and adjuvant therapies for early-stage disease.

Indexed as

Adjuvant therapyBreast cancerGastrointestinal cancersGenitourinary cancersGynecological cancerHead and neck cancerImmune checkpoint inhibitorImmunotherapyLung cancerMelanomaNeoadjuvant therapy

Identifiers

PMID36647169
PMCPMC9843946
OpenAlexW4316661780

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