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SynthesisMolecular biotechnology2024

Relationship Between CD8+ T Cells and Prognosis of Esophageal Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Ben Liu, Zeyuan Liu, Chao Gao

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Synthesis in Molecular biotechnology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Immunoscore based on CD3American journal of cancer research · 2026
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  5. Inverse Regulation of TLR4 and PD-L1 Shapes the Inflammatory Tumor Microenvironment in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinomas.Journal of oral pathology & medicine : official publication of the International Association of Oral Pathologists and the American Academy of Oral Pathology · 2025
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  6. Single-cell transcriptome analysis identifies subclusters and signature with N-glycosylation in endometrial cancer.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ben LiuDepartment of Medical Oncology, The Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, 221000, Jiangsu, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5427-4873
Zeyuan LiuDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Nanjing Jiangning Hospital (The Affiliated Jiangning Hospital of Nanjing Medical University), Nanjing, 211000, Jiangsu, China.
Chao GaoDepartment of Medical Oncology, The Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, 221000, Jiangsu, China. gaochaoly@sina.com.
Xuzhou Medical College · CNNanjing Jiangning Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs), especially CD8+ T cells, play an important role in the process of anti-tumor immune response and are significantly correlated with the prognosis of esophageal cancer (EC), but there are also inconsistent conclusions. This study aimed to comprehensively evaluate the relationship between invasive CD8+ T cells and the prognosis in patients with EC through meta-analysis, and to provide a basis for prognosis and immunotherapy for EC. Articles related to CD8+ T cells and EC prognosis in PubMed, Cochrane Library, Embase, and CNKI were searched. Cancer specific survival (CSS), overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS) served as endpoint events. Besides, Stata15.0 was adopted for meta-analysis, and hazard ratio (HR) and 95% confidence interval (95%CI) for calculation of combined effect sizes. Total 547 articles were retrieved and 27 articles were finally enrolled, including 3988 cases of EC patients. Meta-analysis showed that high CD8 expression levels in tumor tissues, especially those in cancer nests, were associated with longer OS (HR = 0.74, 95% CI 0.67-0.81) and DFS (HR = 0.90, 95% CI 0.85-0.95) in EC patients (P < 0.05). CD8+ T cells play an important role in the prognosis of EC patients and are indispensable components for the immune score of EC.

Indexed as

CD8-Positive T-LymphocytesEsophageal NeoplasmsDisease-Free SurvivalHumansCD8-positive T cellsEsophageal cancerMeta-analysisPrognosis

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PMID37060513
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