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ReviewCancer communications (London, England)2025

Mechanism and role of regulated cell death in tumor immunity and immunotherapy.

Jingwen Hu, Yan Li, Bingjie Lian, Yitao Mao, Luqing Zhao

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Review in Cancer communications (London, England), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed.

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  13. Harnessing Cuproptosis resistance to advance cancer therapeutics.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jingwen HuDepartment of Pathology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, P. R. China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0000-8813-1846
Yan LiDepartment of Pathology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, P. R. China.
Bingjie LianDepartment of Pathology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, P. R. China.
Yitao MaoDepartment of Radiology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, P. R. China.
Luqing ZhaoDepartment of Pathology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, P. R. China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1176-0833

Funding

Changsha Municipal Natural Science Foundation kq2502142Graduate Education and Teaching Reform Project of Central South University 2023JGB118Graduate Education and Teaching Reform Project of Central South University 2023jy153Graduate Education and Teaching Reform Project of Central South University 2024ALK005Graduate Education and Teaching Reform Project of Central South University 2025YJSKS004Hunan Province Young Backbone Teachers Training and Support Program for General Universities 206030803Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province 2022JJ30794
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have brought breakthroughs, but only about one-third of cancer patients benefit from ICIs. In recent years, targeting non-apoptotic regulated cell death (RCD) subtypes, such as ferroptosis, necroptosis, autophagy, cuproptosis, and pyroptosis, has emerged as a novel strategy in cancer therapy due to their ability to release damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs), enhance antigen presentation, and remodel the tumor immune microenvironment, thereby activating anti-tumor immune responses. A number of studies have shown that precise induction of these pathways by small molecules or nanoparticles can reverse the resistance to chemoradiotherapy and ICIs, promote the transformation of "cold tumors" to "hot tumors," and ultimately establish durable immune memory. This article systematically reviewed the key mechanisms and immunomodulatory functions of five types of non-apoptotic RCD (ferroptosis, necroptosis, autophagy, cuproptosis, and pyroptosis), discussed the related treatment strategies, and prospects for the future application in combination with existing immunotherapy.

Indexed as

ImmunotherapyNeoplasmsRegulated Cell DeathAnimalsAutophagyFerroptosisHumansImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsNecroptosisPyroptosisTumor MicroenvironmentImmune Checkpoint Inhibitorsregulated cell deathtumor immune microenvironmenttumor immunitytumor immunotherapy

Identifiers

PMID40999920
PMCPMC12629870

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