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ReviewFASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology2024

Uterine carcinosarcoma: Unraveling the role of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in progression and therapeutic potential.

Mohan Shankar Gopinatha Pillai, Pallab Shaw, Arpan Dey Bhowmik, Resham Bhattacharya, Geeta Rao, Shailendra Kumar Dhar Dwivedi

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Review in FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing 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

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. A Single-Cell Atlas of Uterine Carcinosarcoma from Diverse Ancestries.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  4. Impact ofFujita medical journal · 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

6 authors.

Mohan Shankar Gopinatha PillaiPeggy and Charles Stephenson Cancer Center, The University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7567-1357
Pallab ShawPeggy and Charles Stephenson Cancer Center, The University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0783-9410
Arpan Dey BhowmikPeggy and Charles Stephenson Cancer Center, The University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0457-3987
Resham BhattacharyaPeggy and Charles Stephenson Cancer Center, The University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2523-0569
Geeta RaoPeggy and Charles Stephenson Cancer Center, The University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6211-6023
Shailendra Kumar Dhar DwivediPeggy and Charles Stephenson Cancer Center, The University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5410-2032

Funding

Tissue Pathology Shared ResourceP30CA225520 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HLTH SCIENCES CTR · PI James F Papin · 2018 to 2026
$27.1M
National Cancer Institute Cancer Center Support Grant P30CA225520NCI NIH HHS P30 CA225520Startup GrantThe Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust STCST00401_FY25U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) HT94252310772
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Uterine carcinosarcoma (UCS) is a rare and highly aggressive gynecological malignancy characterized by poor prognosis. Due to its rarity, UCS remains relatively unexplored, and specific treatment guidelines are scarce. Despite standard treatments, including surgery, adjuvant chemotherapy, and radiotherapy, UCS has a high recurrence rate and poor overall prognosis. The aggressive nature of UCS is attributed to the metaplastic transformation of carcinomatous elements into sarcoma. This "biphasic" neoplasm features a mixture of epithelial and mesenchymal/tumor components, which partially share molecular signatures and exhibit a typical epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) gene expression profile. Recent scientific advancements have highlighted the pivotal role of EMT in UCS progression and mortality. This review covers the epidemiology of UCS, theories regarding its origin, and the current state of clinical trials with more emphasis on the role of EMT drivers in UCS progression and scope of targeting these molecules. By shedding light on the molecular mechanisms supporting UCS, particularly emphasizing the importance of EMT, we aim to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the disease to support the development of more effective therapeutic strategies.

Indexed as

CarcinosarcomaEpithelial-Mesenchymal TransitionUterine NeoplasmsDisease ProgressionFemaleHumanscell signalingchondrosarcomaclinical trialsendometrial cancerendometrial stromal sarcomaepithelial to mesenchymal transitionfibrosarcomaleiomyosarcomaosteosarcomarhabdomyosarcomauterine carcinosarcoma

Identifiers

PMID39475331
PMCPMC12927505

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