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ReviewAdvances in cancer research2013

Therapeutic cancer vaccines: past, present, and future.

Chunqing Guo, Masoud H Manjili, John R Subjeck, Devanand Sarkar, Paul B Fisher, Xiang-Yang Wang

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Review in Advances in cancer research, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 255 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
255citing papers in PubMed
34.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

255 citing papers in PubMed, 581 citations in OpenAlex.

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  18. A new era of cancer immunotherapy: vaccines and miRNAs.Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII · 2025
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  19. Microenvironment-based immunotherapy in oral cancer: a comprehensive review.Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) · 2025
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195 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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Chunqing GuoDepartment of Human and Molecular Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
Masoud H Manjili
John R Subjeck
Devanand Sarkar
Paul B Fisher
Xiang-Yang Wang
Virginia Commonwealth University · USRoswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center · US

Funding

Large heat shock proteins and their role in cancer therapyR01CA099326 · NCI · ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE CORP · PI REPASKY, ELIZABETH A, WANG, XIANG-YANG SHAWN · 2003 to 2020
$5.7M
MDA-7: Novel Cancer Therapeutic GeneR01CA097318 · NCI · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI FISHER, PAUL B · 2002 to 2012
$2.8M
Interplay between tumor and microenvironment in bone metastasisR01CA259599 · NCI · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI FISHER, PAUL B, WANG, XIANG-YANG SHAWN · 2021 to 2025
$2.3M
Large Stress Proteins in Biology and MedicineR01CA154708 · NCI · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI WANG, XIANG-YANG SHAWN · 2011 to 2015
$1.5M
Scavenger Receptor-A and Immune RegulationR01CA129111 · NCI · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI WANG, XIANG-YANG SHAWN · 2007 to 2011
$1.2M
NCI NIH HHS CA097318NCI NIH HHS CA129111NCI NIH HHS CA154708NCI NIH HHS R01 CA097318NCI NIH HHS R01 CA099326NCI NIH HHS R01 CA129111NCI NIH HHS R01 CA154708NCI NIH HHS R01 CA259599
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Therapeutic vaccines represent a viable option for active immunotherapy of cancers that aim to treat late stage disease by using a patient's own immune system. The promising results from clinical trials recently led to the approval of the first therapeutic cancer vaccine by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. This major breakthrough not only provides a new treatment modality for cancer management but also paves the way for rationally designing and optimizing future vaccines with improved anticancer efficacy. Numerous vaccine strategies are currently being evaluated both preclinically and clinically. This review discusses therapeutic cancer vaccines from diverse platforms or targets as well as the preclinical and clinical studies employing these therapeutic vaccines. We also consider tumor-induced immune suppression that hinders the potency of therapeutic vaccines, and potential strategies to counteract these mechanisms for generating more robust and durable antitumor immune responses.

Indexed as

Antigens, NeoplasmCancer VaccinesClinical Trials as TopicDendritic CellsHumansImmune SystemMedical OncologyNeoplasmsUnited StatesUnited States Food and Drug AdministrationVaccines, DNAAntigens, NeoplasmCancer VaccinesVaccines, DNACancer vaccineImmune modulatorImmunosuppressionImmunotherapyTumor-associated antigenTumor microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID23870514
PMCPMC3721379
OpenAlexW1532689189

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