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ReviewRambam Maimonides medical journal2015

Adoptive T cell immunotherapy for cancer.

Karlo Perica, Juan Carlos Varela, Mathias Oelke, Jonathan Schneck

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Review in Rambam Maimonides medical journal, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 114 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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114citing papers in PubMed, 3 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

114 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  13. Colorectal Cancer; Novel Approaches in Chimeric Antigen Receptors (CAR) -T cell.International journal of molecular and cellular medicine · 2025
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  16. Public neoantigens in breast cancer immunotherapy (Review).International journal of molecular medicine · 2024
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  17. A novel prognostic model for predicting patient survival and immunotherapy responsiveness in hepatocellular carcinoma: insights into the involvement of T-cell proliferation.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2024
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  20. Metal-based nanoparticle in cancer treatment: lessons learned and challenges.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024
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54 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

4 authors.

Karlo PericaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; ; Institute of Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA;
Juan Carlos VarelaInstitute of Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; ; Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA;
Mathias OelkeSidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; ; Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA;
Jonathan SchneckDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; ; Institute of Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; ; Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; ; Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; ; Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA ; Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Funding

MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM007309 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI COX, ANDREA L · 1985 to 2019
$43.2M
TRAINING PROGRAM IN HEMATOLOGYT32HL007525 · NHLBI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI ROBERT A BRODSKY · 1985 to 2026
$6.2M
NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL007525NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007309
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Harnessing the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells has been the central goal of anti-cancer immunotherapy. In recent years, there has been an increased interest in optimizing this technology in order to make it a clinically feasible treatment. One of the main treatment modalities within cancer immunotherapy has been adoptive T cell therapy (ACT). Using this approach, tumor-specific cytotoxic T cells are infused into cancer patients with the goal of recognizing, targeting, and destroying tumor cells. In the current review, we revisit some of the major successes of ACT, the major hurdles that have been overcome to optimize ACT, the remaining challenges, and future approaches to make ACT widely available.

Indexed as

Adoptive T cell transfercancer immunotherapyT cell engineering

Identifiers

PMID25717386
PMCPMC4327320

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