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ReviewTrends in cancer2025

Sensory neurotransmission and pain in solid tumor progression.

Andre A Martel Matos, Nicole N Scheff

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Review in Trends in cancer, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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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

18 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

2 authors.

Andre A Martel MatosDepartment of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Nicole N ScheffDepartment of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Electronic address: nns18@pitt.edu.

Funding

Sympathetic modulation of head and neck cancer painR01DE030892 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI SCHEFF, NICOLE N · 2021 to 2025
$2.0M
Overcoming Immunotherapy Resistance Through Opioid Antagonism in Head and Neck CancerR01DE033473 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Nicole N Scheff · 2024 to 2026
$1.7M
Employing Novel Primary Mouse Models of Head and Neck Cancer to Overcome Chemoradiation ResistanceK08DE029887 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI MOWERY, YVONNE MARIE · 2020 to 2024
$804k
Targeting TRPV1-containing nerves for radiation-induced pain and oral mucositisR21DE034106 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI MOWERY, YVONNE MARIE, SCHEFF, NICOLE N · 2024 to 2025
$437k
NIDCR NIH HHS K08 DE029887NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE030892NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE033473NIDCR NIH HHS R21 DE034106
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sensory nerves form a crucial component of the tumor microenvironment (TME) that relays vital information to the central nervous system and modulates tumor progression via immunosurveillance. Afferent activity processed by the brain can sensitize brain circuitry and influence host behaviors. Peripheral sensory signaling (e.g., release of neuropeptides in the TME) can drive phenotypic changes in the tumor immune response, such as increased exhaustion markers and inhibited effector cell activity, which promote cancer progression. In this review we highlight the most recent evidence demonstrating the pivotal role of the sensory nervous system in cancer, with a focus on primary tumor pain, and we discuss the extent to which pain can influence cancer progression and treatment response, including immunotherapeutic strategies.

Indexed as

Cancer PainNeoplasmsSensory Receptor CellsSynaptic TransmissionAnimalsDisease ProgressionHumansImmunotherapyTumor Microenvironmentcancerimmunologyimmunotherapyneurosciencenociceptionpain

Identifiers

PMID39884880
PMCPMC12100539

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