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ReviewCancers2025

Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells (MDSCs) at the Crossroad of Senescence and Cancer.

Giovanna Talarico, Stefania Orecchioni, Paolo Falvo, Francesco Bertolini

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Review in Cancers, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing 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

6 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

4 authors.

Giovanna TalaricoLaboratory of Hematology-Oncology, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Via Ripamonti 435, 20141 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5051-6468
Stefania OrecchioniLaboratory of Hematology-Oncology, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Via Ripamonti 435, 20141 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6781-7002
Paolo FalvoLaboratory of Hematology-Oncology, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Via Ripamonti 435, 20141 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5743-5046
Francesco BertoliniLaboratory of Hematology-Oncology, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Via Ripamonti 435, 20141 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5660-3255

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The family of myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) includes a heterogeneous group of partially immature cells belonging to the myeloid lineage with potent immunosuppressive functions. They might be increased in the peripheral blood of cancer patients and in the microenvironment of cancer lesions, where they act in suppressing adaptive and innate immune cells, promoting tumor progression, and facilitating resistance to therapy. Several-albeit still limited-studies have shown higher levels of MDSCs in elderly cancer patients, correlating with poorer outcomes and a reduced response to immunotherapies. Thus, MDSCs may serve as biomarkers for prognosis or therapy response in this population, and MDSC-targeting therapies aimed at reducing their number or function may enhance the effectiveness of immunotherapies in older adults. Additionally, a better understanding of MDSCs may help to overcome some age-related barriers in cancer treatments.

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agingcancerMDSCsenescence

Identifiers

PMID40647547
PMCPMC12248894

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