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ReviewCancers2024

Beyond Anti-PD-1/PD-L1: Improving Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Responses in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.

Kennady K Bullock, Ann Richmond

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Review in Cancers, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. TGF-βRII/IL-15 immunotherapeutic complex targets exhausted CD8Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Kennady K BullockDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9773-3512
Ann RichmondDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9580-900X

Funding

Optimizing Response to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy for Breast Cancer: A Role for Inhibitors of the PI3K pathwayR01CA243326 · NCI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI RICHMOND, ANN, YAN, CHI · 2020 to 2024
$1.8M
Enhancing triple negative breast cancer response to immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy via targeted therapiesF31CA271790 · NCI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI BULLOCK, KENNADY · 2023 to 2024
$40k
BLRD VA IK6 BX005225NCI NIH HHS CA 243326.NCI NIH HHS CA271790-01A1NCI NIH HHS F31 CA271790
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The introduction of anti-programmed cell death protein-1 (anti-PD-1) to the clinical management of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) represents a breakthrough for a disease whose treatment has long relied on the standards of chemotherapy and surgery. Nevertheless, few TNBC patients achieve a durable remission in response to anti-PD-1, and there is a need to develop strategies to maximize the potential benefit of immune checkpoint inhibition (ICI) for TNBC patients. In the present review, we discuss three conceptual strategies to improve ICI response rates in TNBC patients. The first effort involves improving patient selection. We discuss proposed biomarkers of response and resistance to anti-PD-1, concluding that an optimal biomarker will likely be multifaceted. The second effort involves identifying existing targeted therapies or chemotherapies that may synergize with ICI. In particular, we describe recent efforts to use inhibitors of the PI3K/AKT or RAS/MAPK/ERK pathways in combination with ICI. Third, considering the possibility that targeting the PD-1 axis is not the most promising strategy for TNBC treatment, we describe ongoing efforts to identify novel immunotherapy strategies.

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immune checkpoint inhibitionPD-1PD-L1PI3K/AKTRAS/MAPK/ERKtriple-negative breast cancer

Identifiers

PMID38927895
PMCPMC11201651

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