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ArticleJournal for immunotherapy of cancer2015

Preamble to the 2015 SITC immunotherapy biomarkers taskforce.

Lisa H Butterfield, Mary L Disis, Bernard A Fox, Samir N Khleif, Francesco M Marincola

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Article in Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Lisa H ButterfieldUniversity of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA ; University of Pittsburgh, Hillman Cancer Center, 5117 Centre Avenue, Suite 1.27, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA.
Mary L DisisUniversity of Washington, Seattle, WA USA.
Bernard A FoxOregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR USA.
Samir N KhleifGRU Cancer Center, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, GA USA.
Francesco M MarincolaSidra Medical and Research Center, Doha, Qatar.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) has regularly hosted workshops and working groups focused on immunologic monitoring and immune biomarkers. Due to advances in cancer immunotherapy, including positive results from clinical trials testing new agents and combinations, emerging new technologies for measuring aspects of immunity, and novel candidate biomarkers from early phase trials, the SITC Immune Biomarkers Taskforce has reconvened to review the state of the art, identify current hurdles to further success and to make recommendations to the field. Topics being addressed by individual working groups include: (1) validation of candidate biomarkers, (2) identification of the most promising technologies, (3) testing of high throughput immune signatures and (4) investigation of the pre-treatment tumor microenvironment. Resultant recommendations will be published in JITC.

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BiomarkersClinical trialImmune monitoringImmunotherapyTaskforce

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PMID25806107
PMCPMC4371796

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