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ReviewBiomedicines2024

Antibody-Drug Conjugates to Promote Immune Surveillance: Lessons Learned from Breast Cancer.

Sabrina Nucera, Chiara Conti, Federica Martorana, Brooke Wilson, Sofia Genta

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Review in Biomedicines, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 2 of them syntheses 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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Sabrina NuceraDepartment of Human Pathology "G. Barresi", University of Messina, 98131 Messina, Italy.ORCID 0009-0004-7092-1785
Chiara ContiDepartment of Human Pathology "G. Barresi", University of Messina, 98131 Messina, Italy.ORCID 0009-0007-7219-2477
Federica MartoranaDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5062-2914
Brooke WilsonDepartment of Oncology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada.
Sofia GentaDepartment of Oncology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) represent an effective class of agents for the treatment of several tumor types, including breast cancer (BC), featuring approved molecules such as trastuzumab-emtansine, trastuzumab-deruxtecan, and sacituzumab-govitecan. Immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) also showed activity in selected BC subtypes, and two agents, pembrolizumab and atezolizumab, are currently approved for the treatment of triple-negative BC patients. The potential synergy between ADCs and immunotherapy in BC remains an area of active investigation. Preclinical studies suggest that ADCs promote immune surveillance, modulating tumor microenvironment, inducing immunogenic cell death, and enhancing antitumor immunity. Translational evidence has shown potential predictive biomarkers for ADCs alone or in combination with immunotherapy, including expression of target antigen, oncogenic pathways, tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio. Given this background, several clinical trials evaluated ADC-ICI combinations in BC patients, demonstrating promising outcomes with an overall manageable toxicity profile, and many studies are currently ongoing to confirm the efficacy and feasibility of this therapeutic approach. In the present review, we summarized the available evidence about the integration of ADCs and immunotherapy for the management of BC, emphasizing the need for further translational and clinical investigations to optimize this treatment strategy and elucidate predictive biomarkers, eventually improving patient outcomes.

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antibody-drug conjugatesbreast cancerclinical trialsimmune-checkpoint inhibitorsimmune surveillance

Identifiers

PMID39062065
PMCPMC11274676

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