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ReviewCancer microenvironment : official journal of the International Cancer Microenvironment Society2012

The Role of Regulatory T Cells in Mesothelioma.

Demelza J Ireland, Haydn T Kissick, Manfred W Beilharz

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Review in Cancer microenvironment : official journal of the International Cancer Microenvironment Society, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
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

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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 16 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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Demelza J IrelandSchool of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (M502), Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia. demelza.ireland@uwa.edu.au.
Haydn T KissickDepartment of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, Harvard Medical School, 3 Blackfan Circle, CLS 4/430, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.
Manfred W BeilharzSchool of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (M502), Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia.
University of Western Australia · AUHarvard University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Malignant mesothelioma (MM) appears to be responsive to immunotherapy. The lack of complete tumour cure as a result of many immunotherapies tested to date suggests that the immune response to MM is complex and multi-parametric. Regulatory T (Treg) cells are prevalent within murine and human mesotheliomas with their removal shown to result in tumour growth inhibition and the release of anti-tumour effector T cells from immunosuppression. The targeting of immune checkpoints as treatments for various solid tumours has recently shown promise in clinical settings. In addition, synergy between chemotherapy and immunotherapy has been demonstrated for many cancers, including mesothelioma. Here we demonstrate Treg cells as critical mediators of the anti-tumour immune response to MM and potential targets for anti-tumour immunotherapy; though the timing and dosage of Treg cell manipulating immunotherapies need to be optimised.

Indexed as

CancerImmunosuppressionImmunotherapyMalignant mesotheliomaRegulatory T cells

Identifiers

PMID22302659
PMCPMC3399069
OpenAlexW2066772904

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