ArticleOncotarget2022
The "Immunoscore" in rectal cancer: could we search quality beyond quantity of life?
Article in Oncotarget, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.
- Tumour immune microenvironment prognostic factors in locally advanced rectal cancer, a systematic review.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Pooled it
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- Assessment of Immunoscore, MRI Tumor Regression Grade, and Neoadjuvant Rectal Score in Predicting Pathologic Response in Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer in the Averectal Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Prognostic value of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet-neutrophil (PN) index in locally advanced rectal cancer patients: a retrospective cohort study.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2024Article
- Digital Pathology for Better Clinical Practice.Cancers · 2024Review
- The Role of Nonmetastatic Lymph Nodes in the Survival of Colorectal Cancer: A Systematic Review.Annals of surgery open : perspectives of surgical history, education, and clinical approaches · 2023Review
- Genomic and transcriptomic determinants of response to neoadjuvant therapy in rectal cancer.Nature medicine · 2022Article
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21 authors at 12 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
Because of the function and anatomical environment of the rectum, therapeutic strategies for local advanced rectal cancer (LARC) must deal with two challenging stressors that are a high-risk of local and distal recurrences and a high-risk of poor quality of life (QoL). Over the last three decades, advances in screening tests, therapies, and combined-modality treatment options and strategies have improved the prognosis of patients with LARC. However, owing to the heterogeneous nature of LARC and genetic status, the patient may not respond to a specific therapy and may be at increased risk of side-effects without the life-prolonging benefit. Indeed, each therapy can cause its own side-effects, which may worsen by a combination of treatments resulting in long-term poor QoL. In LARC, QoL has become even more essential with the increasing incidence of rectal cancer in young individuals. Herein, we analyzed the value of the Immunoscore-Biopsy (performed on tumor biopsy at diagnosis) in predicting outcomes, alone or in association with clinical and imaging data, for each therapy used in LARC.
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