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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2015

Lymphoma Immunotherapy: Current Status.

Roberta Zappasodi, Filippo de Braud, Massimo Di Nicola

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
27citing papers in PubMed
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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

27 citing papers in PubMed, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. New developments in immunotherapy for lymphoma.Cancer biology & medicine · 2018
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  19. Lymphoma: current status of clinical and preclinical imaging with radiolabeled antibodies.European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Roberta ZappasodiLudwig Collaborative and Swim Across America Laboratory, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center , New York, NY , USA.
Filippo de BraudUnit of Medical Oncology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori , Milan , Italy.
Massimo Di NicolaUnit of Medical Oncology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori , Milan , Italy ; Unit of Immunotherapy and Anticancer Innovative Therapeutics, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori , Milan , Italy.
Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori · ITSwim Across America · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The rationale to treat lymphomas with immunotherapy comes from long-standing evidence on their distinctive immune responsiveness. Indolent B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas, in particular, establish key interactions with the immune microenvironment to ensure prosurvival signals and prevent antitumor immune activation. However, reports of spontaneous regressions indicate that, under certain circumstances, patients develop therapeutic antitumor immunity. Several immunotherapeutic approaches have been thus developed to boost these effects in all patients. To date, targeting CD20 on malignant B cells with the antibody rituximab has been the most clinically effective strategy. However, relapse and resistance prevent to cure approximately half of B-NHL patients, underscoring the need of more effective therapies. The recognition of B-cell receptor variable regions as B-NHL unique antigens promoted the development of specific vaccines to immunize patients against their own tumor. Despite initial promising results, this strategy has not yet demonstrated a sufficient clinical benefit to reach the regulatory approval. Several novel agents are now available to stimulate immune effector functions or counteract immunosuppressive mechanisms, such as engineered antitumor T cells, co-stimulatory receptor agonist, and immune checkpoint-blocking antibodies. Thus, multiple elements can now be exploited in more effective combinations to break the barriers for the induction of anti-lymphoma immunity.

Indexed as

adaptive immune responseanticancer vaccinesB-cell lymphomadendritic cellsimmunotherapytumor-associated antigens

Identifiers

PMID26388871
PMCPMC4555084
OpenAlexW1901679316

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