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ReviewNature cancer2025

The rapidly evolving paradigm of neoadjuvant immunotherapy across cancer types.

Gil Awada, Tina Cascone, Michiel S van der Heijden, Christian U Blank, Marleen Kok, Myriam Chalabi

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Review in Nature cancer, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

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

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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

6 authors.

Gil AwadaDepartment of Medical Oncology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel/Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
Tina CasconeDepartment of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3008-5407
Michiel S van der HeijdenDepartment of Medical Oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4407-7881
Christian U BlankDepartment of Medical Oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7945-5846
Marleen KokDepartment of Medical Oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9043-9815
Myriam ChalabiDepartment of Medical Oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. m.chalabi@nki.nl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8607-6174

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neoadjuvant immunotherapy is rapidly changing the treatment landscape for many tumor types. The superiority of neoadjuvant compared to adjuvant immunotherapy has now been established in both preclinical studies and clinical trials. Neoadjuvant immunotherapy, either as monotherapy or in combination with other immune checkpoint inhibitors or other agents, has become a standard of care for several cancer types, while many new indications are expected. Future research should focus on determining the benefit of treatment combinations versus monotherapy and the contribution of adjuvant after neoadjuvant (or perioperative) treatment versus neoadjuvant treatment alone as well as on identifying predictive biomarkers of response.

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ImmunotherapyNeoadjuvant TherapyNeoplasmsClinical Trials as TopicHumansImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsImmune Checkpoint Inhibitors

Identifiers

PMID40555863

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