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ReviewNature reviews. Clinical oncology2014

Immune-based therapies for childhood cancer.

Crystal L Mackall, Melinda S Merchant, Terry J Fry

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Review in Nature reviews. Clinical oncology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
54citing papers in PubMed
6.7field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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

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

54 citing papers in PubMed, 86 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Identification of Functional Immune Biomarkers in Breast Cancer Patients.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  9. Immunotherapeutic Strategies in the Management of Osteosarcoma.Journal of orthopaedics and sports medicine · 2023
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  11. Pediatric medulloblastoma express immune checkpoint B7-H3.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2022
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  20. Wilms' Tumor 1 (WT1): The Vaccine for Cancer.Journal of immunotherapy and precision oncology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Crystal L MackallPaediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, 10 Center Drive, MSC 1104, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Melinda S MerchantPaediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, 10 Center Drive, MSC 1104, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Terry J FryPaediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, 10 Center Drive, MSC 1104, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
National Cancer Institute · US

Funding

Immunobiology of Pediatric TumorsZIABC011073 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI MACKALL, CRYSTAL · 2009 to 2015
$8.4M
Optimizing the graft versus leukemia effect for pediatric ALLZIABC011295 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI FRY, TERRY · 2010 to 2018
$4.8M
Clinical Trials of Immunotherapies for Childhood CancerZIABC011498 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI MACKALL, CRYSTAL · 2013 to 2015
$2.9M
Developing Immune Based TherapiesZ01BC011072 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI MACKALL, CRYSTAL · 2008 to 2008
$686k
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 BC011072Intramural NIH HHS ZIA BC011295
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

After decades of research, immunotherapies for cancer are demonstrating increasing success. These agents can amplify existent antitumour immunity or induce durable antitumour immune responses in a wide array of cancers. The spectrum of immunotherapeutics is broad, spanning monoclonal antibodies and their derivatives, tumour vaccines, and adoptive therapies using T cells and natural killer cells. Only a small number of immunotherapies have been tested in paediatric cancers, but impressive antitumour effects have already been observed. Mononclonal antibodies targeting GD2 that induce antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity improve survival in high-risk neuroblastoma. Bi-specific monoclonal antibodies that simultaneously target CD19 and activate T cells can induce remission in acute B-cell lymphoblastic leukaemia (B-ALL) and adoptive immunotherapy using T cells genetically engineered to express chimeric antigen receptors targeting CD19 induce impressive responses in B-ALL. Efforts are underway to generate and test new immunotherapies in a wider array of paediatric cancers. Major challenges include a need to identify immunotherapy targets on the most lethal childhood cancers, to expand availability of technology-intense platforms, such as adoptive cell therapy, to optimize management of novel toxicities associated with this new class of cancer therapies and to determine how best to incorporate these therapies into standard treatment paradigms.

Indexed as

ChildHumansImmunotherapyImmunotherapy, AdoptiveNeoplasms

Identifiers

PMID25348789
PMCPMC6953414
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