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ReviewPharmaceutics2025

Leveraging the Tumor Microenvironment as a Target for Cancer Therapeutics: A Review of Emerging Opportunities.

Hakan Guven, Zoltán Székely

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Review in Pharmaceutics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing 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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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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.

Hakan GuvenRobert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 675 Hoes Lane West, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.ORCID 0009-0007-4654-5507
Zoltán SzékelyMolecular Design and Synthesis Core, Rutgers University Biomolecular Innovations Cores, Office for Research, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 610 Taylor Rd, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer has remained one of the leading causes of death worldwide throughout history despite significant advancements in drug development, radiation therapy, and surgery. Traditional chemotherapeutic small molecules are often hindered by narrow therapeutic indices and limited specificity, leading to suboptimal clinical outcomes. On the other hand, more advanced approaches, such as antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), frequently encounter obstacles, including poor tumor penetration and prohibitive production costs. The tumor-forming and metastatic capacity of cancer further challenges currently available cancer therapies by creating a biochemical milieu known as the tumor microenvironment (TME). Although solid tumor development presents significant obstacles, it also opens new avenues for innovative therapeutic approaches. It is well-documented that as tumors grow beyond 1-2 mm

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antibody–drug conjugatebystander effectcancerdrug designhypoxiaprodrugssmall-molecule–drug conjugatesystemic toxicitytumor microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID40871003
PMCPMC12388993

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