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ReviewMolecular cancer2025

Resistance mechanisms to immune checkpoint inhibitors: updated insights.

Besan H Alsaafeen, Bassam R Ali, Eyad Elkord

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Review in Molecular cancer, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 121 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Besan H AlsaafeenDepartment of Genetics and Genomics, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, P.O. Box: 15551, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates.
Bassam R AliDepartment of Genetics and Genomics, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, P.O. Box: 15551, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates. bassam.ali@uaeu.ac.ae.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-6618
Eyad ElkordDepartment of Biosciences and Bioinformatics & Suzhou Municipal Key Lab of Biomedical Sciences and Translational Immunology, School of Science, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China. Eyad.Elkord@xjtlu.edu.cn.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The last decade has witnessed unprecedented succusses with the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors in treating cancer. Nevertheless, the proportion of patients who respond favorably to the treatment remained rather modest, partially due to treatment resistance. This has fueled a wave of research into potential mechanisms of resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors which can be classified into primary resistance or acquired resistance after an initial response. In the current review, we summarize what is known so far about the mechanisms of resistance in terms of being tumor-intrinsic or tumor-extrinsic taking into account the multimodal crosstalk between the tumor, immune system compartment and other host-related factors.

Indexed as

Drug Resistance, NeoplasmImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsNeoplasmsAnimalsHumansTumor MicroenvironmentImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsImmune checkpoint inhibitorsResistanceTumor-extrinsicTumor-intrinsic

Identifiers

PMID39815294
PMCPMC11734352

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