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ReviewJournal for immunotherapy of cancer2025

Neoadjuvant anti-PD-1-based immunotherapy: evolving a new standard of care.

Suzanne L Topalian, Drew M Pardoll

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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 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

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

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  5. Urinary biomarkers for lung cancer detection.The journal of liquid biopsy · 2026
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  11. Computational analysis of treatment resistant cancer cells.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 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

2 authors.

Suzanne L TopalianSurgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA stopali1@jhmi.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0821-8587
Drew M PardollThe Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neoadjuvant (presurgical) anti-programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1)-based immunotherapy as a new approach to cancer treatment has been developing on an accelerated trajectory since the seminal clinical trial results from studies in lung cancer and melanoma were published in 2018. Groundbreaking regulatory approvals in triple-negative breast cancer, non-small cell lung cancer and melanoma will certainly be followed by additional approvals in other disease indications, as clinical and basic research are burgeoning globally in hundreds of clinical trials across dozens of cancer types. As this field is evolving, it is addressing gaps in our understanding of biological mechanisms underlying PD-1 pathway blockade and their synergy with other antineoplastic drugs, probing mechanisms of response and resistance to neoadjuvant immunotherapy, optimizing efficacious clinical strategies, and analyzing commonalities and differences across cancer types. Knowledge gained thus far provides a firm foundation from which to launch the next phase of translational research in this expanding arena of biomedical investigation.

Indexed as

Immune Checkpoint InhibitorsImmunotherapyNeoadjuvant TherapyNeoplasmsProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptorStandard of CareHumansImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsPDCD1 protein, humanProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptorImmune Checkpoint InhibitorImmunotherapyNeoadjuvant

Identifiers

PMID39855712
PMCPMC11759207

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