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ReviewImmunologic research2010

Diverse immune mechanisms may contribute to the survival benefit seen in cancer patients receiving hyperthermia.

Adrienne J Peer, Melissa J Grimm, Evan R Zynda, Elizabeth A Repasky

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Review in Immunologic research, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Prospects of Synergy: Local Interventions and CAR T Cell Therapy in Solid Tumors.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2024
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  13. Hyperthermia: How Can It Be Used?Oman medical journal · 2016
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  14. Effect of hyperthermic COOncology letters · 2015
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  19. Inhibitory effects of mild hyperthermia plus docetaxel therapy on ER(+/-) breast cancer cells and action mechanisms.Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Medical sciences = Hua zhong ke ji da xue xue bao. Yi xue Ying De wen ban = Huazhong keji daxue xuebao. Yixue Yingdewen ban · 2013
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Adrienne J PeerDepartment of Immunology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA.
Melissa J Grimm
Evan R Zynda
Elizabeth A Repasky

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is increasing documentation of significant survival benefits achieved in cancer patients treated with hyperthermia in combination with radiation and/or chemotherapy. Most evidence collected regarding the mechanisms by which hyperthermia positively influences tumor control has centered on in vitro data showing the ability of heat shock temperatures (usually above 42 degrees C) to result in radio- or chemosensitization. However, these high temperatures are difficult to achieve in vivo, and new thermometry data in patients reveal that much of the tumor and surrounding region is only heated to 40-41 degrees C or less as a result of vascular drainage from the target zone of the heated tumor. Thus, there is now a growing appreciation of a role for mild hyperthermia in the stimulation of various arms of the immune system in contributing to long term protection from tumor growth. Indeed, a review of recent literature suggests the existence of an array of thermally sensitive functions which may exist naturally to help the organism to establish a new "set point" of immune responsiveness during fever. This review summarizes recent literature identifying complex effects of temperature on immune cells and potential cellular mechanisms by which increased temperature may enhance immune surveillance.

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Hyperthermia, InducedAnimalsHumansImmune SystemNeoplasmsSurvival AnalysisTemperature

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