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ReviewCancers2025

Immunological Crossroads: Optimizing Antirejection Regimens to Sustain Antitumor Immunity in Liver Transplant Recipients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

Chao Zhang, Xin Yuan, Kunlin Xie

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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 2 papers.

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2citing 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

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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

2 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

3 authors.

Chao ZhangDepartment of General Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
Xin YuanDepartment of General Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
Kunlin XieDepartment of General Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.

Funding

GFYX25004High-Level Discipline Operation Fund - Transplantation and Regeneration GFYX25004Sichuan Province Health Care Research Project 2025-114Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Plan (Key Research Projects) 2024YFFK0211
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Liver transplantation (LT) is a curative treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, lifelong immunosuppressive therapy required to prevent graft rejection inevitably compromises antitumor immunity, thereby increasing the risk of HCC recurrence and metastasis, particularly common in the lungs. This review delves into the complex dynamic equilibrium between immune cell subsets mediating rejection and antitumor immunity, systematically analyzes the impact of current immunosuppressive regimens on this balance, and highlights emerging strategies aimed at minimizing rejection while preserving or enhancing antitumor efficacy. These strategies include immunosuppressive regimen optimization, such as mTOR inhibitor application and calcineurin inhibitor (CNI) minimization, novel immunotherapies, including immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) and adoptive cell therapy (ACT), and immune tolerance induction. This review also summarizes advances in biomarker research guiding immunosuppressant withdrawal, aiming to provide a theoretical basis and clinical insights for personalized immunotherapy strategies and comprehensive tumor management in LT recipients with HCC.

Indexed as

hepatocellular carcinomaimmunosuppression therapyimmunotherapyliver transplantationtumor microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID41375072
PMCPMC12691316

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