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ReviewNature reviews. Immunology2025

Cancer immune evasion, immunoediting and intratumour heterogeneity.

Malte Roerden, Stefani Spranger

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Review in Nature reviews. Immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 161 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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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

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

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  17. Revisiting tumor immunogenicity through the lens of mutant p53: Implications for cancer immunotherapy.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Malte RoerdenKoch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute for Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7283-9778
Stefani SprangerKoch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute for Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. spranger@mit.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3257-4546

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancers can avoid immune-mediated elimination by acquiring traits that disrupt antitumour immunity. These mechanisms of immune evasion are selected and reinforced during tumour evolution under immune pressure. Some immunogenic subclones are effectively eliminated by antitumour T cell responses (a process known as immunoediting), which results in a clonally selected tumour. Other cancer cells arise to resist immunoediting, which leads to a tumour that includes several distinct cancer cell populations (referred to as intratumour heterogeneity (ITH)). Tumours with high ITH are associated with poor patient outcomes and a lack of responsiveness to immune checkpoint blockade therapy. In this Review, we discuss the different ways that cancer cells evade the immune system and how these mechanisms impact immunoediting and tumour evolution. We also describe how subclonal antigen presentation in tumours with high ITH can result in immune evasion.

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Immune EvasionNeoplasmsTumor EscapeAnimalsAntigen PresentationHumansT-LymphocytesTumor Microenvironment

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