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ReviewPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Emerging Strategies for Targeting Angiogenesis and the Tumor Microenvironment in Gastrointestinal Malignancies: A Comprehensive Review.

Emily Nghiem, Briana Friedman, Nityanand Srivastava, Andrew Takchi, Mahshid Mohammadi, Dior Dedushi, Winfried Edelmann, Chaoyuan Kuang, Fernand Bteich

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Review in Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7citing 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

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

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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.

Emily NghiemDepartment of Surgery, Montefiore Einstein, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.ORCID 0009-0001-5157-7198
Briana FriedmanDepartment of Medicine, Montefiore Einstein, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.
Nityanand SrivastavaDepartment of Cell Biology, Montefiore Einstein, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.
Andrew TakchiDepartment of Oncology, Montefiore Einstein, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.
Mahshid MohammadiDepartment of Oncology, Montefiore Einstein, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.
Dior DedushiDepartment of Oncology, Montefiore Einstein, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.
Winfried EdelmannDepartment of Cell Biology, Montefiore Einstein, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.
Chaoyuan KuangDepartment of Oncology, Montefiore Einstein, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8984-3906
Fernand BteichDepartment of Oncology, Montefiore Einstein, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.ORCID 0009-0002-3065-5924

Funding

Training of Surgeons for Studies of the Tumor MicroenvironmentT32CA200561 · NCI · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC · PI MCAULIFFE, JOHN · 2015 to 2024
$2.7M
Analyzing the Hypersensitivity of MMR-deficient Colorectal Cancers to mTOR Inhibition and the Response of Cancer Stem CellsR01CA248536 · NCI · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI EDELMANN, WINFRIED · 2021 to 2025
$2.0M
Clinical testing of Listeria-TT and Gemcitabine in a Phase I clinical trial with PDAC patientsR42CA287679 · NCI · LOKI THERAPEUTICS, INC · PI Chris Bradley, CLAUDIA GRAVEKAMP · 2024 to 2026
$1.0M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA248536NCI NIH HHS R42 CA287679NCI NIH HHS T32 CA200561USA NIH R01CA248536USA NIH R42CA287679USA NIH T32CA200561
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers represent a significant global health burden, with high morbidity and mortality often linked to late-stage detection and metastatic disease. The progression of these malignancies is critically driven by angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels, and the surrounding dynamic tumor microenvironment (TME), a complex ecosystem comprising various cell types and non-cellular components. This comprehensive review, based on a systematic search of the PubMed database, synthesizes the existing literature to define the intertwined roles of angiogenesis and the TME in GI tumorigenesis. The TME's influence creates conditions favorable for tumor growth, invasion, and metastasis, but sometimes induces resistance to current therapies. Available therapeutic strategies for inhibiting angiogenesis involve antibodies and oral tyrosine kinase inhibitors, while immune modulation within the tumor microenvironment is mainly achieved through checkpoint inhibitor antibodies and chemotherapy. Creative emerging strategies encompassing cellular therapies, bispecific antibodies, and new targets such as CD40, DLL4, and Ang2, amongst others, are focused on inhibiting proangiogenic pathways more profoundly, reversing resistance to prior drugs, and modulating the TME to enhance therapeutic efficacy. A deeper understanding of the complex interactions between components of the TME is crucial for addressing the unmet need for novel and effective therapeutic interventions against aggressive GI cancers.

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angiogenesisgastrointestinal cancerstargeted therapytumor microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID40872551
PMCPMC12389621

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