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ReviewHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics2026

The promise of immunotherapy in the treatment of sarcoma: A state-of-the-art review of practice changing research and future directions.

Nichita J Kulkarni, Ciara M Kelly, Edmund K Bartlett

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Review in Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Nichita J KulkarniDepartment of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
Ciara M KellyDepartment of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
Edmund K BartlettDepartment of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI SELWYN M VICKERS · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Soft-tissue sarcoma (STS) poses unique challenges to treatment due to its rarity and heterogeneity. Comprised of multiple histologies which, among other characteristics, differ in their genetic makeup, tumor microenvironment, recurrence patterns and therefore response to treatment, STS is treated primarily with surgical resection, with systemic therapy used in high-risk or metastatic cases. In the era of immunotherapy, STS has been characterized as predominantly immune-cold with few histologies demonstrating consistent robust responses to checkpoint inhibition in the metastatic setting. Strategies to improve checkpoint inhibition responsiveness, such as combination therapies and treatment in the neoadjuvant setting, have shown promise in certain sarcoma subtypes. Other immunotherapeutic approaches, such as adoptive cellular therapies, as well as development of reliable biomarkers for response to immune checkpoint inhibitors, are the subject of ongoing research in this field.

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ImmunotherapySarcomaCancer VaccinesClinical Trials as TopicCombined Modality TherapyHumansImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsImmunotherapy, AdoptiveNeoadjuvant TherapyTumor MicroenvironmentCancer VaccinesImmune Checkpoint Inhibitorsadoptive cellular therapycheckpoint inhibitionclinical trialsimmunotherapySarcomavaccines

Identifiers

PMID42172443
PMCPMC13203055

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