Evidence map›Paper›PMID 22454154›Full record

ReviewCancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII2012

Re-purposing cancer therapeutics for breast cancer immunotherapy.

Leisha A Emens

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Review in Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 21% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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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.

Leisha A EmensSidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins University, 1650 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21231-1000, USA. emensle@jhmi.edu
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center · US

Funding

VACCINES--A NEW PARADIGM FOR BREAST CANCERP50CA088843 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI DAVIDSON, NANCY ELLEN · 2000 to 2010
$27.8M
NCI NIH HHS P50 CA088843NCI NIH HHS P50CA88843
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

After decades of work to develop immune-based therapies for cancer, the first drugs designed specifically to engage the host anti-tumor immune response for therapeutic benefit were recently approved for clinical use. Sipuleucel-T, a vaccine for advanced prostate cancer, and ipilimumab, a monoclonal antibody that mitigates the negative impact of cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen-4 signaling on tumor immunity, provide a modest clinical benefit in some patients. The arrival of these drugs in the clinic is a significant advance that we can capitalize on for even better clinical outcomes. The strategic and scientifically rational integration of vaccines and other direct immunomodulators with standard cancer therapeutics should lead to therapeutic synergy and high rates of tumor rejection. This review focuses on the use of cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and HER-2-specific monoclonal antibodies to dissect mechanisms of immune tolerance relevant to breast cancer patients and illustrates how appropriate preclinical models can powerfully inform clinical translation. The immune-modulating activity of targeted, pathway-specific, small molecule therapeutics is also discussed. Fully understanding how cancer drugs impact the immune system should lead to the ultimate personalized cancer medicine: effective combinatorial immunotherapy strategies that simultaneously target signaling pathways essential for tumor growth and progression, and systematically break multiple, distinct immune tolerance pathways to maximize tumor rejection and effect cure.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntibodies, MonoclonalAntineoplastic AgentsBreast NeoplasmsCongresses as TopicCyclophosphamideDoxorubicinErb-b2 Receptor Tyrosine KinasesFemaleHumansImmunotherapyAntibodies, MonoclonalAntineoplastic AgentsCyclophosphamideDoxorubicinERBB2 protein, humanErb-b2 Receptor Tyrosine Kinases

Identifiers

PMID22454154
PMCPMC3582212
OpenAlexW2076871193

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