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ReviewCNS oncology2015

Dendritic cell immunotherapy for solid tumors: evaluation of the DCVax® platform in the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme.

Alia Hdeib, Andrew Edward Sloan

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Review in CNS oncology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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26citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Autologous tumor lysate-loaded dendritic cell vaccination in glioblastoma patients: a systematic review of literature.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2025
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  5. Current approaches in glioblastoma multiforme immunotherapy.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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  11. Current Approaches for Glioma Gene Therapy and Virotherapy.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2021
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  14. Therapeutic Immunization against Glioblastoma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2018
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  16. Vaccination in the immunotherapy of glioblastoma.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2018
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  18. Glioblastoma targeted therapy: updated approaches from recent biological insights.Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology · 2017
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  19. Single vs. combination immunotherapeutic strategies for glioma.Expert opinion on biological therapy · 2017
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  20. Tumor Vaccines for Malignant Gliomas.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2017
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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

2 authors.

Alia HdeibDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University Hospitals Case Medical Center & The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 2109 Adelbert Road, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
Andrew Edward Sloan

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DCVax(®) (Northwest Biotherapeutics, Inc., MD, USA) is a platform technology for delivering dendritic cell based therapeutic vaccines for a variety of cancers, including glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). DCVax(®)-L, one of the implementations of the DCVax platform, provides personalized active immunotherapy composed of autologous dendritic cells pulsed with autologous whole tumor lysate. Clinical trials with DCVax-L for GBM included previous Phase I/II clinical trials and an ongoing Phase III trial. Preliminary reports of patient outcomes after administration of the DCVax-L vaccine provide a promising therapeutic paradigm for patients with both initially diagnosed and recurrent GBM. Here we evaluate the current literature and clinical experience with the DCVax platform, with a particular focus on GBM treatment.

Indexed as

Brain NeoplasmsCancer VaccinesClinical Trials as TopicGlioblastomaHumansCancer VaccinesDCVax®DCVax®-Ldendritic cell immunotherapydendritic cell vaccinesglioblastoma multiformetumor vaccine

Identifiers

PMID25768330
PMCPMC6093019

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