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ReviewJournal for immunotherapy of cancer2025

Advances in the understanding and therapeutic manipulation of cancer immune responsiveness: a Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) review.

Alessandra Cesano, Ryan Augustin, Luigi Barrea, Davide Bedognetti, Tullia C Bruno, Alberto Carturan, Christian Hammer, Winson S Ho, Jakob Nikolas Kather, Tomas Kirchhoff and 12 more

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Review in Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing 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

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. TMEM33 deletion potentiates anti-tumor CD8bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  13. Orchestration of Tumor-Associated Macrophages in the Tumor Cell-Macrophage-CD8International journal of biological sciences · 2025
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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

22 authors.

Alessandra CesanoESSA Pharma Inc, South San Francisco, California, USA.
Ryan AugustinUniversity of Pittsburgh Department of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Luigi BarreaUniversità Telematica Pegaso, Naples, Italy.
Davide BedognettiKite Pharma Inc, Santa Monica, California, USA.
Tullia C BrunoUniversity of Pittsburgh, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Alberto CarturanUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2711-5724
Christian HammerAltos Labs Inc, San Fransisco, California, USA.
Winson S HoUniversity of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
Jakob Nikolas KatherElse Kroener Fresenius Center for Digital Health, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Tomas KirchhoffLaura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY, USA.
Rongze O LuUCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, California, USA.
Jennifer McQuadeUniversity of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
Yana G NajjarUPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0138-1664
Violena PietrobonKite Pharma Inc, Santa Monica, California, USA.
Marco RuellaUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4301-5811
Rhine ShenKite Pharma Inc, Santa Monica, California, USA.
Laura SoldatiUniversity of Milan, Milan, Italy.
Christine SpencerParker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, San Francisco, California, USA.
Allison Betof WarnerStanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6422-2997
Sarah WarrenKite Pharma Inc, Santa Monica, California, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5046-2890
Elad ZivUniversity of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
Francesco M MarincolaSonata Therapeutics Inc, Watertown, Massachusetts, USA fmarincola@sonatatx.com.

Funding

Project 3: Combinatorial and gene-editing approaches to enhance the efficacy of CAR T cell therapy of multiple myeloma.P01CA214278 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Joseph Anthony Fraietta · 2017 to 2026
$26.8M
MODULATION OF CD5 SIGNALING TO ENHANCE ADOPTIVE T-CELL THERAPIES FOR CANCERR37CA262362 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Marco Ruella · 2022 to 2026
$2.6M
Selective B Cell Depletion Using Engineered T Cells As A Curative Treatment For Acquired Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic PurpuraR01HL178849 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Vijay Bhoj, Marco Ruella · 2025 to 2026
$1.6M
Resistance To Targeted Immunotherapies:CART19 as a ParadigmR00CA212302 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI RUELLA, MARCO · 2018 to 2020
$608k
FDA HHS R01 FD008168NCI NIH HHS P01 CA214278NCI NIH HHS R00 CA212302NCI NIH HHS R37 CA262362NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL178849
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer immunotherapy-including immune checkpoint inhibition (ICI) and adoptive cell therapy (ACT)-has become a standard, potentially curative treatment for a subset of advanced solid and liquid tumors. However, most patients with cancer do not benefit from the rapidly evolving improvements in the understanding of principal mechanisms determining cancer immune responsiveness (CIR); including patient-specific genetically determined and acquired factors, as well as intrinsic cancer cell biology. Though CIR is multifactorial, fundamental concepts are emerging that should be considered for the design of novel therapeutic strategies and related clinical studies. Recent advancements as well as novel approaches to address the limitations of current treatments are discussed here, with a specific focus on ICI and ACT.

Indexed as

Immune Checkpoint InhibitorsImmunotherapyNeoplasmsHumansImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsAdoptive cell therapy - ACTChimeric antigen receptor - CARImmune Checkpoint InhibitorImmune modulatoryTumor microenvironment - TME

Identifiers

PMID39824527
PMCPMC11749597

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