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ReviewNature reviews. Urology2009

Enhancing the efficacy of cancer vaccines in urologic oncology: new directions.

Sergei Kusmartsev, Johannes Vieweg

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Review in Nature reviews. Urology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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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

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. High Levels of PD-L1Journal of kidney cancer and VHL · 2022
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  4. COX2/mPGES1/PGE2 pathway regulates PD-L1 expression in tumor-associated macrophages and myeloid-derived suppressor cells.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Sergei KusmartsevDepartment of Urology, Prostate Disease Center, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL 32610-0247, USA.
Johannes Vieweg

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunotherapeutic interventions have long been utilized in urologic oncology for the treatment of metastatic renal cell or superficial transitional cell carcinoma. Most recently, the first active specific immunotherapeutic approach, a cancer vaccine, has passed the final phase of human testing and its approval by the FDA is pending. However, evidence suggests that the full protective and therapeutic potential of cancer vaccines has not yet been achieved. Through multiple mechanisms, tumors promote conditions in the tumor-bearing host that mitigate or even eliminate the vaccine-induced antitumor response. Restoration of the impaired immune function is, therefore, imperative for achieving optimum vaccine efficacy. Targeted pharmacological interventions are capable of overcoming tumor-mediated immunosuppression, and thereby enable cancer vaccination to reach its full therapeutic potential.

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Cancer VaccinesDinoprostoneHumansNeoplasmsCancer VaccinesDinoprostone

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