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ReviewClinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico2008

Therapeutic vaccines for non-Hodgkin B-cell lymphoma.

Javier Briones

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Review in Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico, 2008. 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
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 43% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Javier BrionesDepartment of Clinical Hematology, Hospital Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain. Jbriones@santpau.cat
Hospital Sant Pau i Santa Tecla · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite current therapeutic strategies for B-cell lymphoma, including chemotherapy and transplantation, the majority of patients are not cured. The characterisation of several tumour antigens has made immunotherapy an interesting approach to the treatment of patients with lymphoma. The idiotype region in the immunoglobulin expressed by the tumour B cells is not only a clonal marker but also a tumour-specific antigen. For this reason, the idiotype is an ideal target for immunotherapy. Extensive studies of idiotype vaccination have been done in murine lymphoma models and some of these strategies are now being tested in clinical trials. In the last few years, new strategies to improve the immune response against lymphoma cells have been studied, including the use of DNA or recombinant viruses encoding tumour-antigens, genetically modified tumour cells and a number of immune adjuvants targeting dendritic cells, T cells or NK cells.

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ImmunotherapyCancer VaccinesClinical Trials as TopicHumansLymphoma, B-CellCancer Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID18796371
OpenAlexW1999912243

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