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ReviewCellular & molecular immunology2025

Immune microenvironment in hepatocellular carcinoma: from pathogenesis to immunotherapy.

Deniz Seyhan, Manon Allaire, Yaojie Fu, Filomena Conti, Xin Wei Wang, Bin Gao, Fouad Lafdil

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Review in Cellular & molecular immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 70 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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70citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

70 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  7. Emerging Immune-Based Therapeutic Strategies in Hepatocellular Carcinoma.Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver · 2026
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10 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

7 authors.

Deniz SeyhanDoctoral School of "Physiologie, Physiopathologie & Thérapeutique", Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.
Manon AllairePitié Salpêtrière University Hospital, Paris, France.
Yaojie FuLaboratory of Liver Diseases, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, USA.
Filomena ContiPitié Salpêtrière University Hospital, Paris, France.
Xin Wei WangLaboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Bin GaoLaboratory of Liver Diseases, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0505-2972
Fouad LafdilUniversité Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), Créteil, France. fouad.lafdil@u-pec.fr.ORCID 0000-0002-4275-1174

Funding

Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) IUF LAFDIL
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is an increasingly prevalent and deadly disease that is initiated by different etiological factors, such as alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD), metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), viral hepatitis, and other hepatotoxic and hepatocarcinogenic agents. The tumor microenvironment (TME) of HCC is characterized by several different fibroblastic and immune cell types, all of which affect the initiation, progression and metastasis of this malignant cancer. This complex immune TME can be divided into an innate component that includes macrophages, neutrophils, dendritic cells, myeloid-derived suppressor cells, mucosal-associated invariant T cells, natural killer cells, natural killer T cells, and innate lymphoid cells, as well as an adaptive component that includes CD4

Indexed as

Carcinoma, HepatocellularImmunotherapyLiver NeoplasmsTumor MicroenvironmentAnimalsHumansHepatocellular carcinomaImmune microenvironmentImmunotherapy.

Identifiers

PMID40500404
PMCPMC12480583

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