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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2025

Overcoming resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitor in non-small cell lung cancer: the promise of combination therapy.

Xuebing Shi, Wenxia Deng, Yunlei Pan, Yingchun Chen, Yinke Wang, Jing Wu

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Xuebing ShiThoracic Oncology Ward of Cancer Center, Tongling People's Hospital, Tongling, Anhui, China.
Wenxia DengThoracic Oncology Ward of Cancer Center, Tongling People's Hospital, Tongling, Anhui, China.
Yunlei PanDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Tongling People's Hospital, Tongling, Anhui, China.
Yingchun ChenResearch Department of Tongling People's Hospital, Tongling, Anhui, China.
Yinke WangThoracic Oncology Ward of Cancer Center, Tongling People's Hospital, Tongling, Anhui, China.
Jing WuThoracic Oncology Ward of Cancer Center, Tongling People's Hospital, Tongling, Anhui, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The clinical application of immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) has profoundly reshaped the therapeutic landscape of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), heralding a new era of immunotherapy in oncology. However, despite the durable and remarkable clinical benefits observed in a subset of patients, a considerable proportion exhibit primary or acquired resistance, substantially limiting overall therapeutic efficacy. Immune resistance has emerged as one of the central challenges in ICI-based NSCLC treatment, stemming from an incomplete understanding of ICI mechanisms of action and the highly heterogeneous and dynamically complex nature of the NSCLC tumor microenvironment (TME). This review provides a comprehensive overview of the diverse molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying ICI resistance in NSCLC, highlights recent advances in combination therapeutic strategies aimed at overcoming resistance, and discusses the opportunities and challenges associated with their clinical translation and application.

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Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsCarcinoma, Non-Small-Cell LungDrug Resistance, NeoplasmImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsLung NeoplasmsAnimalsCombined Modality TherapyHumansImmunotherapyTumor MicroenvironmentImmune Checkpoint Inhibitorscombination therapyICIimmune resistanceNSCLCtumor microenvironment

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PMID41268560
PMCPMC12627020

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