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ReviewTranslational lung cancer research2014

Immunotherapy in lung cancer.

Liza C Villaruz, Aparna Kalyan, Hassane Zarour, Mark A Socinski

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Review in Translational lung cancer research, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 68 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Liza C VillaruzUniversity of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine/Hematology-Oncology, Lung and Thoracic Malignancies Program, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA.
Aparna KalyanUniversity of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine/Hematology-Oncology, Lung and Thoracic Malignancies Program, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA.
Hassane ZarourUniversity of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine/Hematology-Oncology, Lung and Thoracic Malignancies Program, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA.
Mark A SocinskiUniversity of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine/Hematology-Oncology, Lung and Thoracic Malignancies Program, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA.
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunotherapy has emerged in recent years as a promising therapeutic approach in lung cancer. Two approaches are of particular interest: immune checkpoint inhibition, which aims to counteract the physiologic mechanisms of immune tolerance co-opted by some tumors, and vaccine therapy, which enables enhanced exposure to tumor antigen. Immune checkpoint therapies include the monoclonal antibody blockade of the cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA-4) with ipilimumab, as well as antibody blockade of the programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) receptor and the PD-1 ligand. These immune checkpoint therapies have been evaluated in both non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and small cell lung cancer (SCLC) with early evidence of activity. Vaccines include antigen specific therapies which induce specific antitumor immunity against relevant tumor-associated antigens. In lung cancer, these include the melanoma-associated antigen-A3 (MAGE-A3), membrane-associated glycoprotein (MUC-1), and the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). Whole tumor vaccines have also been evaluated in lung cancer and influence the patient's immune system to allow recognition of the tumor as foreign creating de novo immunity. This review summarizes the evidence to date for the efficacy and safety of immunotherapies in lung cancer.

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immune checkpoint therapyImmunotherapylung cancervaccine therapy

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PMID25806276
PMCPMC4367610
OpenAlexW2124689732

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