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ReviewJournal of hematology & oncology2025

Immune checkpoint inhibitors for the treatment of solid tumors and lymphoma in the past 26 years (2000-2025).

Liling Huang, Haohua Zhu, Yuankai Shi

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Review in Journal of hematology & oncology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

22 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors Journey: From Early Promise to Lasting Impact.Journal of immunotherapy and precision oncology · 2026
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  14. Cytokines and cancer-associated fibroblasts.Journal of hematology & oncology · 2026
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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

3 authors.

Liling Huang *Department of Medical Oncology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Key Technologies for Early Clinical Trial Evaluation of Innovative Drugs for Major Diseases, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, No. 17 Panjiayuan Nanli, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100021, China.
Haohua Zhu *Department of Medical Oncology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Key Technologies for Early Clinical Trial Evaluation of Innovative Drugs for Major Diseases, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, No. 17 Panjiayuan Nanli, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100021, China.
Yuankai ShiDepartment of Medical Oncology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Key Technologies for Early Clinical Trial Evaluation of Innovative Drugs for Major Diseases, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, No. 17 Panjiayuan Nanli, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100021, China. syuankai@cicams.ac.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-3342-4964

Funding

China National Science and Technology Major Project for Key New Drug Development 2017ZX09304015
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer immunotherapy originated from the use of Coley's toxins at the end of the nineteenth century. However, immunotherapy had not made great strides in cancer treatment until the discovery of immune checkpoints among which cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4), programmed cell death 1 (PD-1), and programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1) are the most representative ones. Since the first CTLA-4 inhibitor ipilimumab started the first clinical trial in 2000, immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy has gradually emerged as the most successful and widely applied strategy in the field of cancer immunotherapy, revolutionizing treatment paradigms across a broad spectrum of malignancies. Recently, the approvals of monoclonal antibodies targeting lymphocyte activation gene-3 (LAG-3) and novel bispecific antibodies targeting immune checkpoints may indicate the next wave of ICI agents development in cancer immunotherapy. In this review, we aimed to provide a comprehensive overview and in-depth discussion covering the current ICI treatment landscape in the past 26 years (2000-2025), indications and limitations of efficacy-predicting biomarkers, immune-related adverse events, resistance mechanisms and overcoming strategies, as well as future directions of ICI therapy.

Indexed as

Immune Checkpoint InhibitorsLymphomaNeoplasmsHumansImmunotherapyImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsCTLA-4Immune checkpoint inhibitorImmunotherapyLAG-3PD-1/PD-L1

Identifiers

PMID41310835
PMCPMC12661887

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