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ReviewNPJ breast cancer2025

The untapped potential of radiation and immunotherapy for hormone receptor-positive breast cancer.

Matthew Fenton, Miki Yoneyama, Erik Wennerberg, Tom Lund, Andrew Tutt, Alan Melcher, Sandra Demaria, Navita Somaiah

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Review in NPJ breast cancer, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing 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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Potentiating mild photothermal therapy via CDK12/13-mediated AKT suppression to orchestrate ferroptosis-apoptosis crosstalk for vaccine-like immunity.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2026
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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

8 authors.

Matthew FentonDivision of Radiotherapy and Imaging, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK.
Miki YoneyamaDivision of Radiotherapy and Imaging, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK.
Erik WennerbergDivision of Radiotherapy and Imaging, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK.
Tom LundRoyal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
Andrew TuttThe Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK.
Alan MelcherDivision of Radiotherapy and Imaging, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK.
Sandra DemariaWeill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Navita SomaiahDivision of Radiotherapy and Imaging, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK. navita.somaiah@icr.ac.uk.

Funding

Cancer Cell Intrinsic Interferon-I pathway Activation by Fractionated RadiationR01CA201246 · NCI · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI DEMARIA, SANDRA · 2016 to 2025
$3.9M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA201246
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hormone receptor-positive breast cancers are a diverse group of tumours, with only some responding well to immunotherapy. Alternative combination strategies such as radiotherapy present an exciting opportunity to improve immunotherapy responses. We review an intriguing overlap between the impact of oestrogen signalling and radiation on multiple signalling pathways and immune cells that may be exploited for therapeutic gains in breast cancer. This is synthesised with the pre-clinical data and clinical trial landscape supporting the use of combined radiation and immunotherapy to derive insights for future neo-adjuvant trial design.

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PMID40707495
PMCPMC12289982

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