Evidence map›Paper›PMID 19374544›Full record

ReviewFuture oncology (London, England)2009

Dendritic cell-based therapeutic cancer vaccines: what we have and what we need.

Pawel Kalinski, Julie Urban, Rahul Narang, Erik Berk, Ewa Wieckowski, Ravikumar Muthuswamy

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Review in Future oncology (London, England), 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
38citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
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

38 citing papers in PubMed, 76 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Pawel KalinskiDepartment of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Hillman Cancer Center, Res. Pavilion, Suite 1.46, 5117 Center Avenue, PA 15213-1863, USA. kalinskiP@upmc.edu
Julie Urban
Rahul Narang
Erik Berk
Ewa Wieckowski
Ravikumar Muthuswamy
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center · US

Funding

Therapuetic Immune Targeting of EphA2 Expressed by Melanoma & Its Tumor-AssociateP50CA121973 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI KIRKWOOD, JOHN MUNN · 2008 to 2018
$22.9M
PROTEOMICS COREP01CA101944 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI LOTZE, MICHAEL T · 2005 to 2009
$8.5M
Type-1 Antigen Presenting Cells in CNS Tumors - Key to Efficient Anti-Tumor T-CelP01CA132714 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI KALINSKI, PAWEL · 2009 to 2013
$6.8M
Regulation of DC Activity by Memory and Effector CD8+ T CellsR01CA095128 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI KALINSKI, PAWEL · 2003 to 2010
$1.6M
Polarized DC as Melanoma Vaccine: Phase 1 EvaluationR21CA114931 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI KALINSKI, PAWEL · 2005 to 2006
$580k
NCI NIH HHS CA095128NCI NIH HHS CA101944NCI NIH HHS CA114931NCI NIH HHS CA137214NCI NIH HHS P01 CA101944NCI NIH HHS P01 CA132714NCI NIH HHS P50 CA121973NCI NIH HHS R01 CA095128NCI NIH HHS R21 CA114931PHS HHS EA055944
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Therapeutic cancer vaccines rely on the immune system to eliminate tumor cells. In contrast to chemotherapy or passive (adoptive) immunotherapies with antibodies or ex vivo-expanded T cells, therapeutic vaccines do not have a direct anti-tumor activity, but aim to reset patients' immune systems to achieve this goal. Recent identification of effective ways of enhancing immunogenicity of tumor-associated antigens, including the use of dendritic cells and other potent vectors of cancer vaccines, provide effective tools to induce high numbers of circulating tumor-specific T cells. However, despite indications that some of the new cancer vaccines may be able to delay tumor recurrence or prolong the survival of cancer patients, their ability to induce cancer regression remains low. Recent reports help to identify and prospectively remove the remaining obstacles towards effective therapeutic vaccination of cancer patients. They indicate that the successful induction of tumor-specific T cells by cancer vaccines is not necessarily associated with the induction of functional cytotoxic T lymphocytes, and that current cancer vaccines may promote undesirable expansion of Treg cells. Furthermore, recent studies also identify the tools to counteract such phenomena, in order to assure the desirable induction of Th1-cytotoxic T lymphocytes, NK-mediated type-1 immunity and appropriate homing of effector cells to tumors.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntigens, NeoplasmCancer VaccinesClinical Trials as TopicDendritic CellsHumansNeoplasmsT-LymphocytesAntigens, NeoplasmCancer Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID19374544
PMCPMC2713774
OpenAlexW2145877666

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