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ReviewExpert review of vaccines2013

An update on vaccine therapy and other immunotherapeutic approaches for glioblastoma.

David A Reardon, Kai W Wucherpfennig, Gordon Freeman, Catherine J Wu, E Antonio Chiocca, Patrick Y Wen, William T Curry, Duane A Mitchell, Peter E Fecci, John H Sampson and 1 more

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Review in Expert review of vaccines, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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35citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

35 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  5. Genetically Modified Cellular Therapies for Malignant Gliomas.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  17. Recent advances and future of immunotherapy for glioblastoma.Expert opinion on biological therapy · 2016
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  18. Cellular immunotherapy for malignant gliomas.Expert opinion on biological therapy · 2016
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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

11 authors.

David A ReardonCenter for Neuro-Oncology, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center, Boston, MA, USA. david_reardon@dfci.harvard.edu
Kai W Wucherpfennig
Gordon Freeman
Catherine J Wu
E Antonio Chiocca
Patrick Y Wen
William T Curry
Duane A Mitchell
Peter E Fecci
John H Sampson
Glenn Dranoff

Funding

Trageting the Multiple Myeloma EpigenomeP50CA100707 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE · PI ANDERSON, KENNETH C., MUNSHI, NIKHIL C. · 2003 to 2023
$45.0M
Targeting Genomic Instability and Evolution in MyelomaP01CA155258 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI Jill Corre · 2011 to 2026
$32.5M
Targeting Myeloma Cell-Host Bone Marrow InteractionsP01CA078378 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE · PI RITZ, JEROME · 1998 to 2014
$26.2M
Targeting MFG-E8 as Melanoma ImmunotherapyR01CA143083 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI DRANOFF, GLENN · 2010 to 2014
$1.6M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA078378NCI NIH HHS P01 CA155258NCI NIH HHS P50 CA100707NCI NIH HHS R01 CA143083
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Outcome for glioblastoma (GBM), the most common primary CNS malignancy, remains poor. The overall survival benefit recently achieved with immunotherapeutics for melanoma and prostate cancer support evaluation of immunotherapies for other challenging cancers, including GBM. Much historical dogma depicting the CNS as immunoprivileged has been replaced by data demonstrating CNS immunocompetence and active interaction with the peripheral immune system. Several glioma antigens have been identified for potential immunotherapeutic exploitation. Active immunotherapy studies for GBM, supported by preclinical data, have focused on tumor lysate and synthetic antigen vaccination strategies. Results to date confirm consistent safety, including a lack of autoimmune reactivity; however, modest efficacy and variable immunogenicity have been observed. These findings underscore the need to optimize vaccination variables and to address challenges posed by systemic and local immunosuppression inherent to GBM tumors. Additional immunotherapy strategies are also in development for GBM. Future studies may consider combinatorial immunotherapy strategies with complimentary actions.

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GlioblastomaHumansImmunotherapyTreatment Outcome

Identifiers

PMID23750791
PMCPMC3982399

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