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ReviewCancers2020

Tumor Microenvironment: Implications in Melanoma Resistance to Targeted Therapy and Immunotherapy.

Italia Falcone, Fabiana Conciatori, Chiara Bazzichetto, Gianluigi Ferretti, Francesco Cognetti, Ludovica Ciuffreda, Michele Milella

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Review in Cancers, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 98 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
98citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
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

98 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 130 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Italia FalconeMedical Oncology, IRCCS-Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, 00144 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2796-0792
Fabiana ConciatoriMedical Oncology, IRCCS-Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, 00144 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8579-5222
Chiara BazzichettoMedical Oncology, IRCCS-Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, 00144 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1648-3700
Gianluigi FerrettiMedical Oncology, IRCCS-Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, 00144 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2271-6427
Francesco CognettiMedical Oncology, IRCCS-Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, 00144 Rome, Italy.
Ludovica CiuffredaSAFU, Department of Research, Advanced Diagnostics, and Technological Innovation, IRCCS-Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, 00144 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7964-7119
Michele MilellaSection of Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Verona School of Medicine and Verona University Hospital Trust, 37126 Verona, Italy.
Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico · ITUniversity of Verona · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antitumor therapies have made great strides in recent decades. Chemotherapy, aggressive and unable to discriminate cancer from healthy cells, has given way to personalized treatments that, recognizing and blocking specific molecular targets, have paved the way for targeted and effective therapies. Melanoma was one of the first tumor types to benefit from this new care frontier by introducing specific inhibitors for v-Raf murine sarcoma viral oncogene homolog B (BRAF), mitogen-activated protein kinase (MEK), v-kit Hardy-Zuckerman 4 feline sarcoma viral oncogene homolog (KIT), and, recently, immunotherapy. However, despite the progress made in the melanoma treatment, primary and/or acquired drug resistance remains an unresolved problem. The molecular dynamics that promote this phenomenon are very complex but several studies have shown that the tumor microenvironment (TME) plays, certainly, a key role. In this review, we will describe the new melanoma treatment approaches and we will analyze the mechanisms by which TME promotes resistance to targeted therapy and immunotherapy.

Indexed as

immunotherapymelanomatargeted therapytherapeutic resistancetumor microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID33036192
PMCPMC7601592
OpenAlexW3091934903

What Socratic holds

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Registered trials

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