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ReviewCancers2026

Immunotherapy in Locally Advanced Cervical Carcinoma: A Narrative Review.

Claire Meynard, Emmanuel Fardeau, Tiphaine Lambert, Sophie Guillerm, Diane Jornet, Laurent Quero, Christophe Hennequin

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Review in Cancers, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper 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

7 authors.

Claire MeynardRadiation Oncology Department, Hôpital Saint-Louis, AP-HP, Université Paris-Cité, 75010 Paris, France.
Emmanuel FardeauRadiation Oncology Department, Hôpital Saint-Louis, AP-HP, Université Paris-Cité, 75010 Paris, France.
Tiphaine LambertMedical Oncology Department, Hôpital Saint-Louis, AP-HP, Université Paris-Cité, 75010 Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0003-4317-4281
Sophie GuillermRadiation Oncology Department, Hôpital Saint-Louis, AP-HP, Université Paris-Cité, 75010 Paris, France.
Diane JornetRadiation Oncology Department, Hôpital Saint-Louis, AP-HP, Université Paris-Cité, 75010 Paris, France.ORCID 0009-0000-7507-0474
Laurent QueroRadiation Oncology Department, Hôpital Saint-Louis, AP-HP, Université Paris-Cité, 75010 Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0002-8781-2540
Christophe HennequinRadiation Oncology Department, Hôpital Saint-Louis, AP-HP, Université Paris-Cité, 75010 Paris, France.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The treatment of locally advanced cervical cancer is based on concomitant cisplatin-based chemoradiotherapy followed by brachytherapy. The quality of this treatment is essential to optimize results. In particular, intensity-modulated radiotherapy followed by image-guided brachytherapy achieves 90% local control regardless of the stage of the disease. More recently, several randomized trials have changed the management of these tumors: The INTERLACE trial evaluated the benefits of neoadjuvant chemotherapy with carboplatin and paclitaxel and demonstrated a survival benefit for this approach. This trial has been the subject of considerable criticism. The KEYNOTE A.18 trial evaluated the addition of pembrolizumab to standard treatment: an improvement in overall survival was demonstrated for patients with stage III-IV disease (FIGO 2014 classification). The CALLA trial, which evaluated the addition of durvalumab, was negative. This review summarizes the biological rationale for this immunotherapy, its results, and the quality criteria for chemoradiotherapy. It describes the various trials in detail, puts their results into context, and discusses the relevance of this new treatment based on the patients' baseline characteristics. Based on this critical analysis, patients with stage III-IVA cervical cancer (FIGO 2014 classification) should receive, in addition to standard chemoradiotherapy, concomitant treatment with pembrolizumab followed by two years of maintenance therapy.

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cervical cancerimmunotherapyradiotherapy

Identifiers

PMID42122204
PMCPMC13162908

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