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ReviewFrontiers in oncology2014

Immunotherapy for Lung Cancer: Has it Finally Arrived?

Ahmed A Mostafa, Don G Morris

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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 24 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed.

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  11. Quantitative proteomic study of mitoxantrone-resistant NCI-H460 cell-xenograft tumors.International journal of clinical and experimental pathology · 2018
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  12. Identification of novel proteins in chemoresistant lung cancer cells by quantitative proteomics.International journal of clinical and experimental pathology · 2018
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  16. Disappearance of lung adenocarcinoma after total en bloc spondylectomy using frozen tumor-bearing vertebra for reconstruction.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2016
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  17. Immunotherapy for lung cancer: advances and prospects.American journal of clinical and experimental immunology · 2016
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  19. Immature myeloid cells and tolerogenic cytokine profile in lung adenocarcinoma metastatic lymph nodes assessed by endobronchial ultrasound.Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ahmed A MostafaDepartment of Oncology, University of Calgary , Calgary, AB , Canada.
Don G MorrisDepartment of Oncology, University of Calgary , Calgary, AB , Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The possible link between infection/inflammation/immune activation and a cancer patient's outcome from both a causative and outcome point of view has long been postulated. Substantial progress in the understanding of tumor-associated antigens/epitopes, immune cellular subpopulations, cytokine pathways/expression, the tumor microenvironment, and the balance between tumor-immune suppression and stimulation have been made over the past decade. This knowledge has heralded a new era of tumor immunotherapy utilizing vaccines, immune checkpoint inhibition, and oncolytic viruses. Despite significant progress in the molecular era now with targeted therapeutics such as EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors and ALK fusion protein inhibitors that have significantly improved the outcome of these specific lung cancer subpopulations, the overall 5 year survival for all non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is still <20%. Unlike malignancies such as malignant melanoma, renal cell carcinoma, and neuroblastoma given their documented spontaneous remission rates lung cancer historically has been felt to be resistant to immune approaches likely related to an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment and/or lack of immune recognition. Defining responding populations, understanding the mechanism(s) underlying durable immune responses, and the role of chemotherapy, radiation, oncolytic viruses, and other tumor disrupting agents in augmenting immune responses have led to improved optimization of immune therapeutic strategies. The purpose of this review is to focus on the recent advances in lung immunotherapy with an emphasis on recent clinical trials in the last 5 years in NSCLC.

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clinical trialsimmune checkpoint inhibitorslung cancervaccines

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PMCPMC4206190

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