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ReviewNature reviews. Cancer2009

Targeted and armed oncolytic poxviruses: a novel multi-mechanistic therapeutic class for cancer.

David H Kirn, Steve H Thorne

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Review in Nature reviews. Cancer, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 226 papers.

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226citing papers in PubMed
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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

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

226 citing papers in PubMed.

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  12. Oncolytic Virotherapy in Solid Tumors: A Current Review.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2025
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166 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

2 authors.

David H KirnJennerex Biotherapeutics Inc., San Francisco, California 94105, USA . dkirn@jennerex.com
Steve H Thorne

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Viruses have been engineered for cancer therapy in a variety of ways. Approaches include non-replicating gene therapy vectors, cancer vaccines and oncolytic viruses, but the clinical efficacy of these approaches has been limited by multiple factors. However, a new therapeutic class of oncolytic poxviruses has recently been developed that combines targeted and armed approaches for treating cancer. Initial preclinical and clinical results show that products from this therapeutic class can systemically target cancers in a highly selective and potent fashion using a multi-pronged mechanism of action.

Indexed as

Oncolytic VirotherapyAnimalsCancer VaccinesForecastingGene Expression Regulation, ViralHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansImmunity, CellularInflammationMiceNeoplasm MetastasisNeoplasmsOncolytic VirusesPoxviridaeVaccinia virusVirus ReplicationCancer Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID19104515

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