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ReviewTrends in cancer2023

Immune vulnerabilities of mutant KRAS in pancreatic cancer.

Noah C Cheng, Robert H Vonderheide

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Review in Trends in cancer, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed
4.8field-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, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. KRASScience advances · 2026
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  5. KRAS Inhibitors in Pancreas Cancer: Facts and Hopes about the Immunotherapy We Have All Been Waiting for.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2026
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  7. KRASiScience · 2026
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  12. KRASCell reports. Medicine · 2025
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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Noah C ChengAbramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Robert H VonderheideAbramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Electronic address: rhv@upenn.edu.
University of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Molecular Determinants and Therapeutic Consequences of Immune Heterogeneity in CancerR01CA229803 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI STANGER, BEN Z · 2018 to 2022
$3.7M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA229803
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The 40-year desire to target the mutant Kirsten rat sarcoma (KRAS) gene (mKRAS) therapeutically is being realized with more and more broadly applicable and tumor-specific small-molecule inhibitors. Immunologically, mKRAS has equal desirability as a target. Tumor KRAS signaling plays a large role in shaping the immunosuppressive nature of the tumor microenvironment, especially in pancreatic cancer, leaving mKRAS inhibitors with potentially powerful immune modulatory capabilities that could be exploited in immunological-oncological combinations. mKRAS is itself an immunological antigen, a 'shared neoepitope' linked to the oncogenic process, validated biochemically and immunologically. Novel approaches in the clinic are taking advantage of the fact that mKRAS peptides are naturally processed and presented in tumors by the major histocompatibility complex (MHC).

Indexed as

Pancreatic NeoplasmsProto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)HumansMutationSignal TransductionTumor MicroenvironmentKRAS protein, humanProto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)immune responseinhibitorsmutant KRASpancreatic cancerTCR therapiesvaccines

Identifiers

PMID37524642
PMCPMC10592263
OpenAlexW4385382895

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