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ArticleHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics2013

Therapeutic vaccines: the ultimate personalized therapy?

James L Gulley

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Article in Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
22citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 11% 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

22 citing papers in PubMed, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Humoral Immune Response against Nontargeted Tumor Antigens after Treatment with Sipuleucel-T and Its Association with Improved Clinical Outcome.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2015
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  14. Opportunities in immunotherapy of ovarian cancer.Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology · 2016
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  17. Therapeutic cancer vaccines.Advances in cancer research · 2014
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  18. Adding fuel to the fire: immunogenic intensification.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2014
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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

James L GulleyCenter for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD USA. gulleyj@mail.nih.gov
National Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Cancer Therapy Clinical Trials Using Novel Recombinant VaccinesZIABC010666 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI GULLEY, JAMES L. · 2009 to 2025
$22.4M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Personalized therapy is directed at obtaining maximal therapeutic effect on diseased tissue with minimal off-target side effects. Many classes of therapeutics have attempted to reach this ideal, only to fall well short. Therapeutic vaccines represent a novel class of therapies that can induce a dynamic immune response that, in theory, can continue to adapt and expand following initiation of vaccination. This adaptability, through epitope spreading or antigen cascade, can continuously refine a therapeutic immune response, making it more relevant to the patient's tumor. This active, dynamic, iterative process can continue long after the vaccine course has been completed. Recent clinical trials have provided further insight into the clinical activity of therapeutic vaccines, and offer guidance on clinical expectations following vaccine. The ongoing active sculpting of the immune response, along with the lack of significant side effects, uniquely positions therapeutic vaccines as perhaps the ultimate in personalized therapy.

Indexed as

HumansImmunotherapyPrecision MedicineVaccinesVaccinesantigen cascadeantigen spreadingcancer vaccineepitope spreadingimmunotherapyindividualized therapypersonalized medicine

Identifiers

PMID22995839
PMCPMC3667942
OpenAlexW1985701752

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