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ArticleDiscover oncology2023

Breast cancer stem cells generate immune-suppressive T regulatory cells by secreting TGFβ to evade immune-elimination.

Sumon Mukherjee, Sourio Chakraborty, Udit Basak, Subhadip Pati, Apratim Dutta, Saikat Dutta, Dia Roy, Shruti Banerjee, Arpan Ray, Gaurisankar Sa and 1 more

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Article in Discover oncology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Revisiting tumor immunogenicity through the lens of mutant p53: Implications for cancer immunotherapy.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 2026
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  13. Regulation of Cancer Stem Cells in the Tumor Microenvironment.Cancer heterogeneity and plasticity · 2025
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  17. The Role of Nuclear Factor-κB in Cancer Immunity and Immunoediting.Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center
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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

11 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sumon MukherjeeDivision of Molecular Medicine, Bose Institute, P-1/12, Calcutta Improvement Trust Scheme VII M, Kolkata, 700054, India.
Sourio ChakrabortyDivision of Molecular Medicine, Bose Institute, P-1/12, Calcutta Improvement Trust Scheme VII M, Kolkata, 700054, India.
Udit BasakDivision of Molecular Medicine, Bose Institute, P-1/12, Calcutta Improvement Trust Scheme VII M, Kolkata, 700054, India.
Subhadip PatiDivision of Molecular Medicine, Bose Institute, P-1/12, Calcutta Improvement Trust Scheme VII M, Kolkata, 700054, India.
Apratim DuttaDivision of Molecular Medicine, Bose Institute, P-1/12, Calcutta Improvement Trust Scheme VII M, Kolkata, 700054, India.
Saikat DuttaDivision of Molecular Medicine, Bose Institute, P-1/12, Calcutta Improvement Trust Scheme VII M, Kolkata, 700054, India.
Dia RoyDivision of Molecular Medicine, Bose Institute, P-1/12, Calcutta Improvement Trust Scheme VII M, Kolkata, 700054, India.
Shruti BanerjeeDivision of Molecular Medicine, Bose Institute, P-1/12, Calcutta Improvement Trust Scheme VII M, Kolkata, 700054, India.
Arpan RayDepartment of Pathology, ESI-PGIMSR, Medical College Hospital and ODC (EZ), Kolkata, India.
Gaurisankar SaDivision of Molecular Medicine, Bose Institute, P-1/12, Calcutta Improvement Trust Scheme VII M, Kolkata, 700054, India.
Tanya DasDivision of Molecular Medicine, Bose Institute, P-1/12, Calcutta Improvement Trust Scheme VII M, Kolkata, 700054, India. tanya@jcbose.ac.in.
Bose Institute · INEmployees State Insurance Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences and Research · IN

Funding

ICMR Emeritus Scientist Scheme, NASI Platinum Jubilee Senior Scientist Fellowship, CSIR Grant 74/1/2020-Pers, NASI/297/12/2020, 27(0355)/19/EMR-II
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer stem cells (CSCs), being the primary contributors in tumor initiation, metastasis, and relapse, ought to have seminal roles in evasion of immune surveillance. Tumor-promoting CD4

Indexed as

Anti-tumor immunityCancer stem cellsMetastasisMicroenvironmentRelapseStemness markersTGFβTreg cellsTumor initiation

Identifiers

PMID38038865
PMCPMC10692020
OpenAlexW4389244966

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