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ReviewNature reviews. Cancer2024

Immunogenic cell death in cancer: targeting necroptosis to induce antitumour immunity.

Pascal Meier, Arnaud J Legrand, Dieter Adam, John Silke

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Review in Nature reviews. Cancer, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 208 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
208citing papers in PubMed
65.2field-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

208 citing papers in PubMed, 279 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Shedding light on the cancer cell death mechanism in photodynamic therapy.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 2026
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  14. Cuproptosis promotes antitumour immunity.Nature reviews. Cancer · 2026
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  15. NIR-Assisted Multimodal Strategies for Enhanced Antibacterial Therapy.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026
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148 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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 3 countries.

Pascal MeierThe Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK. pascal.meier@icr.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2760-6523
Arnaud J LegrandThe Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9429-813X
Dieter AdamInstitut für Immunologie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany. dadam@email.uni-kiel.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5668-5032
John SilkeWalter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. silke@wehi.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7611-5774
Institute of Cancer Research · GBChristian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel · DEWalter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research · AU

Funding

Cancer Research UK 24399
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most metastatic cancers remain incurable due to the emergence of apoptosis-resistant clones, fuelled by intratumour heterogeneity and tumour evolution. To improve treatment, therapies should not only kill cancer cells but also activate the immune system against the tumour to eliminate any residual cancer cells that survive treatment. While current cancer therapies rely heavily on apoptosis - a largely immunologically silent form of cell death - there is growing interest in harnessing immunogenic forms of cell death such as necroptosis. Unlike apoptosis, necroptosis generates second messengers that act on immune cells in the tumour microenvironment, alerting them of danger. This lytic form of cell death optimizes the provision of antigens and adjuvanticity for immune cells, potentially boosting anticancer treatment approaches by combining cellular suicide and immune response approaches. In this Review, we discuss the mechanisms of necroptosis and how it activates antigen-presenting cells, drives cross-priming of CD8

Indexed as

Immunogenic Cell DeathNecroptosisNeoplasmsTumor MicroenvironmentAnimalsCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesHumansImmunotherapy

Identifiers

PMID38454135
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