Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34830841›Full record

ReviewCancers2021

Uveal Melanoma Metastasis.

Ernesto Rossi, Michela Croce, Francesco Reggiani, Giovanni Schinzari, Marianna Ambrosio, Rosaria Gangemi, Giampaolo Tortora, Ulrich Pfeffer, Adriana Amaro

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In one paragraph

Review in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
36citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
7.7field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

36 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  11. Pathological and Molecular Diagnosis of Uveal Melanoma.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
    Review
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  14. Machine Learning Methods for Gene Selection in Uveal Melanoma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
    Article
  15. Uveal melanoma: Recent advances in immunotherapy.World journal of clinical oncology · 2024
    Review
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  17. Interdependence of Molecular Lesions That Drive Uveal Melanoma Metastasis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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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

9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Ernesto RossiMedical Oncology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, 00168 Rome, Italy.
Michela CroceLaboratory of Biotherapies, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, 16132 Genova, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4683-4951
Francesco ReggianiLaboratory of Epigenetics, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, 16132 Genova, Italy.
Giovanni SchinzariMedical Oncology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, 00168 Rome, Italy.
Marianna AmbrosioLaboratory of Epigenetics, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, 16132 Genova, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2671-9713
Rosaria GangemiLaboratory of Biotherapies, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, 16132 Genova, Italy.
Giampaolo TortoraMedical Oncology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, 00168 Rome, Italy.
Ulrich PfefferLaboratory of Epigenetics, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, 16132 Genova, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0872-4671
Adriana AmaroLaboratory of Epigenetics, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, 16132 Genova, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1573-7756
Ospedale Policlinico San Martino · ITUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · ITAgostino Gemelli University Polyclinic · IT

Funding

Compagnia San Paolo 20067Italian Association for Cancer Research 17103Italian Ministry of Health 5x1000Italian Ministry of Health ricerca corrente
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Uveal melanoma (UM) is characterized by relatively few, highly incident molecular alterations and their association with metastatic risk is deeply understood. Nevertheless, this knowledge has so far not led to innovative therapies for the successful treatment of UM metastases or for adjuvant therapy, leaving survival after diagnosis of metastatic UM almost unaltered in decades. The driver mutations of UM, mainly in the G-protein genes GNAQ and GNA11, activate the MAP-kinase pathway as well as the YAP/TAZ pathway. At present, there are no drugs that target the latter and this likely explains the failure of mitogen activated kinase kinase inhibitors. Immune checkpoint blockers, despite the game changing effect in cutaneous melanoma (CM), show only limited effects in UM probably because of the low mutational burden of 0.5 per megabase and the unavailability of antibodies targeting the main immune checkpoint active in UM. The highly pro-tumorigenic microenvironment of UM also contributes to therapy resistance. However, T-cell redirection by a soluble T-cell receptor that is fused to an anti-CD3 single-chain variable fragment, local, liver specific therapy, new immune checkpoint blockers, and YAP/TAZ specific drugs give new hope to repeating the success of innovative therapy obtained for CM.

Indexed as

immune checkpointmolecular classificationtargeted therapytumorigenesisuveal melanoma

Identifiers

PMID34830841
PMCPMC8616038
OpenAlexW3211945524

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