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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2025

Combinational therapeutic strategies to overcome resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors.

Besan H Alsaafeen, Bassam R Ali, Eyad Elkord

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 14 papers.

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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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.
Bassam R AliDepartment of Genetics and Genomics, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.
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.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over the past few years, immune checkpoint inhibitors resulted in magnificent and durable successes in treating cancer; however, only a minority of patients respond favorably to the treatment due to a broad-spectrum of tumor-intrinsic and tumor-extrinsic factors. With the recent insights gained into the mechanisms of resistance, combination treatment strategies to overcome the resistance and enhance the therapeutic potential of immune checkpoint inhibitors are emerging and showing promising results in both pre-clinical and clinical settings. This has been derived through multiple interconnected mechanisms such as enhancing tumor immunogenicity, improving neoantigen processing and presentation in addition to augmenting T cell infiltration and cytotoxic potentials. In the clinical settings, several avenues of combination treatments involving immune checkpoint inhibitors were associated with considerable improvement in the therapeutic outcome in terms of patient's survival and tumor growth control. This, in turn, increased the spectrum of cancer patients benefiting from the unprecedented and durable effects of immune checkpoint inhibitors leading to their adoption as a first-line treatment for certain cancers. Moreover, the significance of precision medicine in cancer immunotherapy and the unmet demand to develop more personalized predictive biomarkers and treatment strategies are also highlighted in this review.

Indexed as

Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsDrug Resistance, NeoplasmImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsImmunotherapyNeoplasmsAnimalsCombined Modality TherapyHumansImmune Checkpoint Inhibitorscombinationimmune checkpoint inhibitorsprecision immunotherapyresistancetumor mircoenvironment

Identifiers

PMID40342408
PMCPMC12058545

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