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ReviewNature reviews. Cancer2026

The impact of concomitant medications on treatment outcomes in patients with cancer receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors.

Samantha Stone, Jordan P McPherson, Rajan P Kulkarni, Arabella Young

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Review in Nature reviews. Cancer, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5citing 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

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Samantha StoneHuntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7715-7239
Jordan P McPhersonHuntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4038-7951
Rajan P KulkarniDepartment of Dermatology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-4085
Arabella YoungHuntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. arabella.young@hci.utah.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6845-9753

Funding

Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) Cancer Genetics, Epigenetics, Models, and Signaling (Cancer GEMS) Training ProgramT32CA265782 · UTAH STATE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM--UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · 2025 to 2025
$269k
NCI NIH HHS T32 CA265782
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During anticancer therapy, patients with cancer are often prescribed medications to combat concomitant health conditions and ameliorate cancer-associated side effects. Despite emerging evidence that many commonly prescribed medications have immunomodulating properties, surprisingly little is known about their interactions with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in the treatment of cancer. This Review provides an overview of recent advances characterizing the reported impact of concomitant drug use on ICI-mediated therapeutic response and associated immune-related adverse events, and the potential to repurpose immunomodulatory drugs for other comorbidities to enhance ICI treatment efficacy.

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Immune Checkpoint InhibitorsNeoplasmsHumansTreatment OutcomeImmune Checkpoint Inhibitors

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.