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Strategic integration of immunotherapy with chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and targeted therapy in gastric cancer management: A systematic review
Yashwant Kumar Ratre, Nilabh Ghritlahre, Babita Pande, Tarun Sahu, Lakkakula Suhasini Sahithi, Shashikant Swarnkar, Henu Kumar Verma
Yashwant Kumar Ratre, Lakkakula Suhasini Sahithi, Department of Biotechnology, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur 495001, Chhattisgarh, India
Nilabh Ghritlahre, Department of Physiology, Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College, Raipur 492001, Chhattisgarh, India
Babita Pande, Life Science, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur 492001, Chhattisgarh, India
Tarun Sahu, Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Science, Raipur 492001, Chhattisgarh, India
Shashikant Swarnkar, Department of Biochemistry, Chandulal Chandrakar Memorial Government Medical College, Bhilai 490024, Chhattisgarh, India
Henu Kumar Verma, Department of Bioscience and Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai 491002, Chhattisgarh, India
Co-first authors: Yashwant Kumar Ratre and Nilabh Ghritlahre.
Author contributions: Verma HK contributed to the conceptualization, investigation and supervision; Ghritlahre N, Ratre YK, Sahithi LS, and Swarnkar S contributed to the methodology; Pande B and Verma HK contributed to the software; Sahu T, Ghritlahre N, Pande B, Ratre YK, Sahithi LS, and Swarnkar S contributed to the article search and writing the original draft; Ghritlahre N, Ratre YK, Pande B, and Sahu T contributed to the writing, reviewing, and editing of the manuscript.
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Corresponding author: Henu Kumar Verma, Assistant Professor, Department of Bioscience and Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kutelabhata, Bhilai 491002, Chhat
tisgarh, India.
henu.verma@yahoo.com
Received: October 27, 2025
Revised: December 22, 2025
Accepted: February 10, 2026
Published online: June 14, 2026
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