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ReviewNature reviews. Cancer2024

Towards targeting the breast cancer immune microenvironment.

Michael A Harris, Peter Savas, Balaji Virassamy, Megan M R O'Malley, Jasmine Kay, Scott N Mueller, Laura K Mackay, Roberto Salgado, Sherene Loi

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Review in Nature reviews. Cancer, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 208 papers.

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208citing papers in PubMed
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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

208 citing papers 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

9 authors.

Michael A HarrisThe Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Medical Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9904-4091
Peter SavasThe Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Medical Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Balaji VirassamyThe Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Medical Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Megan M R O'MalleyThe Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Medical Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Jasmine KayThe Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Medical Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0009-6673-6604
Scott N MuellerDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3838-3989
Laura K MackayDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
Roberto SalgadoDivision of Cancer Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1110-3801
Sherene LoiThe Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Medical Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. sherene.loi@petermac.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6137-9171

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The tumour immune microenvironment is shaped by the crosstalk between cancer cells, immune cells, fibroblasts, endothelial cells and other stromal components. Although the immune tumour microenvironment (TME) serves as a source of therapeutic targets, it is also considered a friend or foe to tumour-directed therapies. This is readily illustrated by the importance of T cells in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), culminating in the advent of immune checkpoint therapy in combination with cytotoxic chemotherapy as standard of care for both early and advanced-stage TNBC, as well as recent promising signs of efficacy in a subset of hormone receptor-positive disease. In this Review, we discuss the various components of the immune TME in breast cancer and therapies that target or impact the immune TME, as well as the complexity of host physiology.

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Tumor MicroenvironmentAnimalsBreast NeoplasmsFemaleHumansImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsImmunotherapyTriple Negative Breast NeoplasmsImmune Checkpoint Inhibitors

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