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ReviewEuropean journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging2022

Radionuclide imaging and therapy directed towards the tumor microenvironment: a multi-cancer approach for personalized medicine.

Circe D van der Heide, Simone U Dalm

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Review in European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
25citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

25 citing papers in PubMed, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Understanding and targeting the tumour matrisome.Nature reviews. Clinical oncology · 2026
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  2. Progress in the application ofAnnals of nuclear medicine · 2026
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  8. The molecular blueprint of targeted radionuclide therapy.Nature reviews. Clinical oncology · 2025
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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Circe D van der HeideDepartment of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Simone U DalmDepartment of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. s.dalm@erasmusmc.nl.ORCID 0000-0002-6393-6901
Erasmus MC · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Targeted radionuclide theranostics is becoming more and more prominent in clinical oncology. Currently, most nuclear medicine compounds researched for cancer theranostics are directed towards targets expressed in only a small subset of cancer types, limiting clinical applicability. The identification of cancer-specific targets that are (more) universally expressed will allow more cancer patients to benefit from these personalized nuclear medicine-based interventions. A tumor is not merely a collection of cancer cells, it also comprises supporting stromal cells embedded in an altered extracellular matrix (ECM), together forming the tumor microenvironment (TME). Since the TME is less genetically unstable than cancer cells, and TME phenotypes can be shared between cancer types, it offers targets that are more universally expressed. The TME is characterized by the presence of altered processes such as hypoxia, acidity, and increased metabolism. Next to the ECM, the TME consists of cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), macrophages, endothelial cells forming the neo-vasculature, immune cells, and cancer-associated adipocytes (CAAs). Radioligands directed at the altered processes, the ECM, and the cellular components of the TME have been developed and evaluated in preclinical and clinical studies for targeted radionuclide imaging and/or therapy. In this review, we provide an overview of the TME targets and their corresponding radioligands. In addition, we discuss what developments are needed to further explore the TME as a target for radionuclide theranostics, with the hopes of stimulating the development of novel TME radioligands with multi-cancer, or in some cases even pan-cancer, application.

Indexed as

NeoplasmsPrecision MedicineEndothelial CellsHumansRadionuclide ImagingTumor MicroenvironmentCancer stromaPan-cancer therapyRadionuclide imaging and therapyTheranosticsTumor microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID35788730
PMCPMC9606105
OpenAlexW4283807237

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