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ReviewCell communication and signaling : CCS2023

Targeting ferroptosis in melanoma: cancer therapeutics.

Khatereh Khorsandi, HomaSadat Esfahani, Saeedeh Keyvani- Ghamsari, Parisa Lakhshehei

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Review in Cell communication and signaling : CCS, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
30citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
9.8field-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

30 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Decoding the Role of Lipid Metabolism and Membrane Dynamics in Melanoma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  11. Ferroptosis and cancer: when iron turns against tumors.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2025
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  15. Caveolin-1 modulates cisplatin sensitivity in oral squamous cell carcinoma through ferroptosis.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

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

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Khatereh KhorsandiDepartment of Photodynamics, Medical Laser Research Center, Yara Institute, ACECR, Tehran, Iran. khorsandi.kh@ut.ac.ir.
HomaSadat EsfahaniDepartment of Photodynamics, Medical Laser Research Center, Yara Institute, ACECR, Tehran, Iran.
Saeedeh Keyvani- GhamsariDepartment of Microbiology, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran.
Parisa LakhsheheiDepartment of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Sciences, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research · IRIslamic Azad University, Karaj · IRIslamic Azad University North Tehran Branch · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Melanoma is an aggressive kind of skin cancer; its rate has risen rapidly over the past few decades. Melanoma reports for only about 1% of skin cancers but leads to a high majority of skin cancer deaths. Thus, new useful therapeutic approaches are currently required, to state effective treatments to consistently enhance the overall survival rate of melanoma patients. Ferroptosis is a recently identified cell death process, which is different from autophagy, apoptosis, necrosis, and pyroptosis in terms of biochemistry, genetics, and morphology which plays an important role in cancer treatment. Ferroptosis happens mostly by accumulating iron and lipid peroxides in the cell. Recently, studies have revealed that ferroptosis has a key role in the tumor's progression. Especially, inducing ferroptosis in cells can inhibit the tumor cells' growth, leading to back warding tumorigenesis. Here, we outline the ferroptosis characteristics from its basic role in melanoma cancer and mention its possible applications in melanoma cancer treatment. Video Abstract.

Indexed as

FerroptosisMelanomaSkin NeoplasmsApoptosisCarcinogenesisHumansCancer treatmentCell deathFerroptosisMelanomaTargeted therapy

Identifiers

PMID37996827
PMCPMC10666330
OpenAlexW4388945045

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Registered trials

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