Evidence map›Paper›PMID 23253225›Full record

ReviewExpert review of anticancer therapy2012

Breast cancer immunobiology driving immunotherapy: vaccines and immune checkpoint blockade.

Leisha A Emens

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Review in Expert review of anticancer therapy, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 94 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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94citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

94 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. CTLA-4 Expression and Its Clinical Significance in Breast Cancer.Archivum immunologiae et therapiae experimentalis · 2021
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  7. The role of CXC chemokines and receptors in breast cancer.Clinical and experimental medicine · 2025
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  11. The Microenvironment in DCIS and Its Role in Disease Progression.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025
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34 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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.

Leisha A EmensThe Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins University, 1650 Orleans Street, Room 409, Bunting Blaustein Cancer Research Building, Baltimore, MD 21231-1000, USA. emensle@jhmi.edu

Funding

Translational Research Central ServicesP30CA006973 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Rosalie Wollett · 1985 to 2026
$208.6M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA006973
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Breast cancer is immunogenic, and infiltrating immune cells in primary breast tumors convey important clinical prognostic and predictive information. Furthermore, the immune system is critically involved in clinical responses to some standard cancer therapies. Early breast cancer vaccine trials have established the safety and bioactivity of breast cancer immunotherapy, with hints of clinical activity. Novel strategies for modulating regulators of immunity, including regulatory T cells, myeloid-derived suppressor cells and immune checkpoint pathways (monoclonal antibodies specific for the cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 or programmed death), are now available. In particular, immune checkpoint blockade has enormous therapeutic potential. Integrative breast cancer immunotherapies that strategically combine established breast cancer therapies with breast cancer vaccines, immune checkpoint blockade or both should result in durable clinical responses and increased cures.

Indexed as

Antibodies, MonoclonalAntigens, NeoplasmBreast NeoplasmsCancer VaccinesCTLA-4 AntigenFemaleHumansImmunotherapyProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptorAntibodies, MonoclonalAntigens, NeoplasmCancer VaccinesCTLA-4 AntigenCTLA4 protein, humanPDCD1 protein, humanProgrammed Cell Death 1 Receptor

Identifiers

PMID23253225
PMCPMC3587160

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