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ReviewScience (New York, N.Y.)2024

Cancer immunotherapy by γδ T cells.

Adrian Hayday, Julie Dechanet-Merville, Jamie Rossjohn, Bruno Silva-Santos

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Review in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 64 papers.

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64citing papers in PubMed
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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

64 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. γδ T cells and cancer.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026
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  7. γδ T cells in colorectal and liver cancer.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2026
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  9. Viscoelastic Niches Shape γδ T-Cell Phenotype and Effector Function.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  17. Covalent tumor anchoring spatially orchestrates antitumor immunity.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  18. Programmed Cell Death Protein 1-Interleukin-2 Bispecific Agents for Cancer Therapy.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2026
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  19. Reinvigorating COTL1Nature cell biology · 2026
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4 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.

Adrian HaydayFrancis Crick Institute, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9495-5793
Julie Dechanet-MervilleImmunoConcEpT, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5164, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.ORCID 0000-0001-7521-9531
Jamie RossjohnInfection and Immunity Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-2020-7522
Bruno Silva-SantosInstituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0003-4141-9302

Funding

Wellcome Trust CC2012Wellcome Trust FC001003
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The premise of cancer immunotherapy is that cancers are specifically visible to an immune system tolerized to healthy self. The promise of cancer immunotherapy is that immune effector mechanisms and immunological memory can jointly eradicate cancers and inoperable metastases and de facto vaccinate against recurrence. For some patients with hitherto incurable diseases, including metastatic melanoma, this promise is being realized by game-changing immunotherapies based on αβ T cells. Today's challenges are to bring benefit to greater numbers of patients of diverse ethnicities, target more cancer types, and achieve a cure while incurring fewer adverse events. In meeting those challenges, specific benefits may be offered by γδ T cells, which compose a second T cell lineage with distinct recognition capabilities and functional traits that bridge innate and adaptive immunity. γδ T cell-based clinical trials, including off-the-shelf adoptive cell therapy and agonist antibodies, are yielding promising results, although identifiable problems remain. In addressing those problems, we advocate that immunotherapies be guided by the distinctive biology of γδ T cells, as elucidated by ongoing research.

Indexed as

Immunotherapy, AdoptiveIntraepithelial LymphocytesNeoplasmsReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-deltaAnimalsClinical Trials as TopicHumansMelanomaReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta

Identifiers

PMID39361750
PMCPMC7616870

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