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ReviewFrontiers in oncology2014

Oncolytic viruses as anticancer vaccines.

Norman Woller, Engin Gürlevik, Cristina-Ileana Ureche, Anja Schumacher, Florian Kühnel

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Review in Frontiers in oncology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

49 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Norman WollerClinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Medical School Hannover , Hannover , Germany.
Engin GürlevikClinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Medical School Hannover , Hannover , Germany.
Cristina-Ileana UrecheClinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Medical School Hannover , Hannover , Germany.
Anja SchumacherClinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Medical School Hannover , Hannover , Germany.
Florian KühnelClinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Medical School Hannover , Hannover , Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oncolytic virotherapy has shown impressive results in preclinical studies and first promising therapeutic outcomes in clinical trials as well. Since viruses are known for a long time as excellent vaccination agents, oncolytic viruses are now designed as novel anticancer agents combining the aspect of lysis-dependent cytoreductive activity with concomitant induction of antitumoral immune responses. Antitumoral immune activation by oncolytic virus infection of tumor tissue comprises both, immediate effects of innate immunity and also adaptive responses for long lasting antitumoral activity, which is regarded as the most prominent challenge in clinical oncology. To date, the complex effects of a viral tumor infection on the tumor microenvironment and the consequences for the tumor-infiltrating immune cell compartment are poorly understood. However, there is more and more evidence that a tumor infection by an oncolytic virus opens up a number of options for further immunomodulating interventions such as systemic chemotherapy, generic immunostimulating strategies, dendritic cell-based vaccines, and antigenic libraries to further support clinical efficacy of oncolytic virotherapy.

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antitumor immune responseantitumor immunityoncolytic agentsoncolytic virotherapyoncolytic virus

Identifiers

PMID25101244
PMCPMC4104469

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