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ReviewOncology reports2026

HMGB3: A pivotal orchestrator of therapy resistance and cancer stemness in human malignancies (Review).

Ju Zhang, Yifan Sun, Lanyu Wang, Jiayu Gu, Ye Hua, Jianfeng Shao, Ninghan Feng

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Review in Oncology reports, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Ju Zhang *Wuxi Medical Center, Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214002, P.R. China.
Yifan Sun *Department of Urology, Jiangnan University Medical Center, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214002, P.R. China.
Lanyu Wang *Department of Urology, Jiangnan University Medical Center, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214002, P.R. China.
Jiayu GuDepartment of Urology, Jiangnan University Medical Center, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214002, P.R. China.
Ye HuaDepartment of Neurology, Jiangnan University Medical Center, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214002, P.R. China.
Jianfeng ShaoWuxi Medical Center, Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214002, P.R. China.
Ninghan FengDepartment of Urology, Jiangnan University Medical Center, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214002, P.R. China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High mobility group box 3 (HMGB3) acts as an essential participator in fundamental biological processes, including transcriptional regulation, chromatin remodeling and DNA repair. HMGB3 is highly expressed and functionally essential during embryonic development, particularly in the hematopoietic and nervous systems, but it is significantly downregulated or silenced in most normal adult tissues. Its aberrant upregulation has been revealed in numerous human malignancies, such as leukemia, as well as breast, bladder, colorectal and gastric cancer, and its expression levels have been established to be closely associated with poor prognosis of specific patients. Accordingly, the present review systematically explores the central roles of HMGB3 in mediating resistance to cancer therapy. This review focuses on its multifaceted mechanisms of maintaining cancer stemness, enhancing DNA damage repair, modulating cell death pathways and remodeling the tumor microenvironment, thereby contributing to the resistance to chemotherapy, radiotherapy, targeted therapy and immunotherapy collectively. HMGB3 can be accepted as a key target in the development of highly promising therapeutic strategies, given its pivotal involvement in multidrug resistance, which may offer novel avenues for overcoming clinical treatment resistance and improving patient outcomes.

Indexed as

Drug Resistance, NeoplasmHMGB3 ProteinNeoplasmsNeoplastic Stem CellsAnimalsDNA RepairGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansMolecular Targeted TherapyTumor MicroenvironmentHMGB3 ProteinDNA repairHMGB3targeted therapytreatment resistancetumor microenvironmenttumor stemness

Identifiers

PMID41930588
PMCPMC13088071

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