Evidence map›Paper›PMID 19259666›Full record

ReviewCancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII2009

The importance of the age factor in cancer vaccination at older age.

Claudia Gravekamp

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Review in Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 31% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Is cancer vaccination feasible at older age?Experimental gerontology · 2014
    Review
  2. T cell replicative senescence in human aging.Current pharmaceutical design · 2013
    Review
  3. Aging and cancer vaccines.Critical reviews in oncogenesis · 2013
    Review
  4. Aging, cancer, and cancer vaccines.Immunity & ageing : I & A · 2012
    Article
  5. Article
  6. The impact of aging on cancer vaccination.Current opinion in immunology · 2011
    Review
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.

Claudia GravekampDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Forchheimer Bldg, Room 407A, Bronx, NY 10461, USA. cgraveka@aecom.yu.edu
Albert Einstein College of Medicine · US

Funding

DNA vaccines for metastatic breat cancer at old ageR01AG023096 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR SAN ANT · PI GRAVEKAMP, CLAUDIA · 2004 to 2010
$1.2M
New Approaches to Prevent or Treat Breast Cancer MetastasesR21CA129470 · NCI · CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MED CTR RES INSTITUTE · PI GRAVEKAMP, CLAUDIA · 2008 to 2009
$414k
NCI NIH HHS 1R21CA129470-01A1NCI NIH HHS R21 CA129470NIA NIH HHS 1R01 AG023096-01NIA NIH HHS R01 AG023096
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer is an age-related disease, and with the graying of the society there is an increasing need to optimize cancer management and therapy to elderly patients. Vaccine therapy for cancer is less toxic than chemotherapy or radiation and could be, therefore, especially effective in older, more frail cancer patients. However, it has been shown that older individuals do not respond to vaccine therapy as well as younger adults. This has been attributed to T cell unresponsiveness, a phenomenon also observed in cancer patients per se. Therefore, research is needed to establish whether age-specific tumor-immunological variables permit optimal use of cancer vaccines and therapy in the elderly. This review summarizes the current knowledge of T cell unresponsiveness in cancer patients and elderly, and the results of cancer vaccination in preclinical models at young and old age. Finally, new directions that may lead to effective cancer vaccination at older age will be proposed.

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AgingCancer VaccinesHumansNeoplasmsT-LymphocytesCancer Vaccines

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PMID19259666
PMCPMC4826050
OpenAlexW2007299559

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