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ReviewCancers2024

Immunotherapy in Neuroendocrine Neoplasms: A Diamond to Cut.

Esmeralda García-Torralba, Esther Garcia-Lorenzo, Bernard Doger, Francesca Spada, Angela Lamarca

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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 6 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

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

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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

5 authors.

Esmeralda García-TorralbaDepartment of Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitario Morales Meseguer, 30008 Murcia, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-3744-2182
Esther Garcia-LorenzoSTART Madrid-FJD, Early Phase Clinical Trials Unit, Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
Bernard DogerSTART Madrid-FJD, Early Phase Clinical Trials Unit, Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
Francesca SpadaEuropean Institute of Oncology, European Institute of Oncology (IEO) IRCCS, 20141 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3642-0798
Angela LamarcaDepartment of Oncology, OncoHealth Institute, Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital, 28040 Madrid, Spain.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A raise in the incidence of NENs is expected. Therefore, the identification of new therapeutic strategies, such as immunotherapy, remains crucial. To date, immune checkpoint inhibitors as monotherapy have shown modest activity in unselected NENs. Although immunotherapy combos (plus another immune agents or chemotherapy, among others) are potentially more active than single agents, this has not been uniformly confirmed, even in high-grade NENs. Other immunotherapeutic strategies under development include bispecific antibodies, targeting specific tumor antigens like DLL3, and cell therapy. Currently, no predictive immune biomarkers are available to guide clinical decisions. A comprehensive tumor molecular profiling approach needs to be developed for the selection of patients with NEN who could potentially benefit from immunotherapy. Ideally, clinical trials should incorporate this tumor molecular profiling to identify predictive biomarkers and improve efficacy. Achieving this goal requires an international collaborative effort.

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immune biomarkersimmunotherapyneuroendocrine neoplasms

Identifiers

PMID39061170
PMCPMC11275146

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