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ReviewCancers2023

Immunotherapy and the Combination with Targeted Therapies for Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

Carmelo Laface, Girolamo Ranieri, Felicia Maria Maselli, Francesca Ambrogio, Caterina Foti, Michele Ammendola, Marigia Laterza, Gerardo Cazzato, Riccardo Memeo, Giovanni Mastrandrea and 2 more

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Review in Cancers, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
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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

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

12 authors.

Carmelo LafaceMedical Oncology, Dario Camberlingo Hospital, 72021 Francavilla Fontana, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5074-4951
Girolamo RanieriIRCCS Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", 70124 Bari, Italy.
Felicia Maria MaselliMedical Oncology, Dario Camberlingo Hospital, 72021 Francavilla Fontana, Italy.
Francesca AmbrogioSection of Dermatology, Department of Biomedical Science and Human Oncology, University of Bari, 70124 Bari, Italy.
Caterina FotiSection of Dermatology, Department of Biomedical Science and Human Oncology, University of Bari, 70124 Bari, Italy.
Michele AmmendolaDepartment of Health Science, General Surgery, Medicine School of Germaneto, Magna Graecia University, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8043-6100
Marigia LaterzaDivision of Cardiac Surgery, University of Bari, 70124 Bari, Italy.
Gerardo CazzatoDepartment of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, Pathology Section, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Piazza Giulio Cesare 11, 70124 Bari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0325-4316
Riccardo MemeoUnit of Hepato-Pancreatic-Biliary Surgery, "F. Miulli" General Regional Hospital, 70021 Acquaviva Delle Fonti, Italy.
Giovanni MastrandreaIRCCS Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", 70124 Bari, Italy.
Marco LioceIRCCS Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", 70124 Bari, Italy.
Palma FedeleMedical Oncology, Dario Camberlingo Hospital, 72021 Francavilla Fontana, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

One of the most important abilities of a tumor is to establish a state of immunosuppression inside the tumor microenvironment. This is made possible through numerous mechanisms of tumor immune escape that have been identified in experimental studies during the last decades. In addition, the hepatic microenvironment is commonly oriented towards a state of immune tolerance because the liver receives blood from the hepatic arteries and portal veins containing a variety of endogenous antigens. Therefore, the hepatic microenvironment establishes an autoimmune tolerance, preventing an autoimmune reaction in the liver. On this basis, hepatic tumor cells may escape the immune system, avoiding being recognized and destroyed by immune cells. Moreover, since the etiology of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) is often related to cirrhosis, and hepatitis B or C, this tumor develops in the context of chronic inflammation. Thus, the HCC microenvironment is characterized by important immune cell infiltration. Given these data and the poor prognosis of advanced HCC, different immunotherapeutic strategies have been developed and evaluated for these patients. In this review, we describe all the clinical applications of immunotherapy for advanced HCC, from the drugs that have already been approved to the ongoing clinical trials.

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hepatocellular carcinomaimmunotherapytargeted therapytumor microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID36765612
PMCPMC9913568

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