ReviewCancer cell2023
Neoadjuvant immune checkpoint blockade: A window of opportunity to advance cancer immunotherapy.
Review in Cancer cell, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 189 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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189 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 256 citations in OpenAlex.
- 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 · 2026Pooled it
- Safety of immune checkpoint modulators beyond PD-1/PD-L1 and CTLA-4 in solid tumors: a meta-analysis.JNCI cancer spectrum · 2026Pooled it
- From mechanism to clinical: research evolution and hotspot analysis of CD276/B7-H3 in cancer immunotherapy.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Pooled it
- Efficacy of Neoadjuvant Cemiplimab Treatment for Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma-A Systematic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Pooled it
- Risk factors for checkpoint inhibitor pneumonitis in lung cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Pooled it
- Efficacy and safety of neoadjuvant systemic therapy in resectable hepatocellular carcinoma: a Systematic Review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Pooled it
- Neoadjuvant-Adjuvant vs Neoadjuvant-Only PD-1 and PD-L1 Inhibitors for Patients With Resectable NSCLC: An Indirect Meta-Analysis.JAMA network open · 2024Pooled it
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of immune checkpoint inhibitors as single agent or in combination with chemotherapy in early-stage non-small cell lung cancer: Impact of clinicopathological factors and indirect comparison between treatment strategies.European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990) · 2023Pooled it
- Pre-existing systemic immune state and dynamic myeloid remodeling shape response to neoadjuvant PD-L1 blockade.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2026Trial
- Neoadjuvant immune checkpoint blockade before chemoradiation for cervical squamous carcinoma (GINECO window-of-opportunity COLIBRI study): a phase II trial.Nature communications · 2026Trial
- Camrelizumab plus chemotherapy versus chemoradiotherapy as neoadjuvant therapy for resectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: Phase 2 randomized trial (REVO).Nature communications · 2025Trial
- Neoadjuvant anti-PD-1 alone or in combination with anti-TIGIT or an oncolytic virus in resectable stage IIIB-D melanoma: a phase 1/2 trial.Nature medicine · 2025Trial
- Neoadjuvant and adjuvant pembrolizumab in advanced high-grade serous carcinoma: the randomized phase II NeoPembrOV clinical trial.Nature communications · 2024Trial
- Impact of PD-1 Inhibitor Timing Relative to Locoregional Therapy on Outcomes in uHCC Treated With Lenvatinib-Based Triple Therapy.Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver · 2026Article
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- Anticancer Potential of Antimicrobial Peptides: Mechanisms, Clinical Application, Challenges, and Future Prospects.Drug development research · 2026Review
- Global research hotspots and evolving themes in chemoresistance of hepatocellular carcinoma: a bibliometric analysis from a pharmacological perspective.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2026Review
- The Evolving Role of Immunotherapy in the Treatment with Curative Purpose of Early, Intermediate and Advanced Stage Hepatocellular Carcinoma.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2026Review
- Biomimetic delivery of a STING agonistMaterials today. Bio · 2026Article
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Abstract
Among new treatment approaches for patients with cancer, few have accelerated as quickly as neoadjuvant immune checkpoint blockade (ICB). Neoadjuvant cancer therapy is administered before curative-intent surgery in treatment-naïve patients. Conventional neoadjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy are primarily intended to reduce tumor size, improving surgical resectability. However, recent scientific evidence outlined here suggests that neoadjuvant immunotherapy can expand and transcriptionally modify tumor-specific T cell clones to enhance both intratumoral and systemic anti-tumor immunity. It further offers a unique "window of opportunity" to explore mechanisms and identify novel biomarkers of ICB response and resistance, opening possibilities for refining long-term clinical outcome predictions and developing new, more highly effective ICB combination therapies. Here, we examine advances in clinical and scientific knowledge gleaned from studies in select cancers and describe emerging key principles relevant to neoadjuvant ICB across many cancer types.
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