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ReviewCancers2025

Immune Checkpoint Therapy for Thymic Carcinoma.

Jinhui Li, Fuling Mao, Hongyu Liu, Jun Chen

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Review in Cancers, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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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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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Review
  3. Thymic neuroendocrine tumours: molecular landscape, immune microenvironment and therapeutic perspectives.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 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

4 authors.

Jinhui LiDepartment of Lung Cancer Surgery, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin 300052, China.ORCID 0009-0001-2803-7484
Fuling MaoDepartment of Lung Cancer Surgery, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin 300052, China.
Hongyu LiuTianjin Key Laboratory of Lung Cancer Metastasis and Tumor Microenvironment, Tianjin Lung Cancer Institute, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin 300052, China.
Jun ChenDepartment of Lung Cancer Surgery, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin 300052, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thymic carcinoma (TC) is a rare, aggressive cancer that originates from thymus's epithelial cells. It distinguishes itself from other thymic epithelial tumors with its unique pathological structure, clinical behavior, and immune characteristics. Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) targeting the Programmed cell death protein 1/Programmed cell death protein ligand 1 (PD-1/PD-L1) pathway have shown promise in advanced TC, potentially benefiting from frequent PD-L1 overexpression and abundant CD8

Indexed as

immune checkpoints inhibitorsimmune-related adverse eventsprogrammed cell death protein 1programmed cell death protein ligand 1thymic carcinoma

Identifiers

PMID41154432
PMCPMC12563402

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