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GuidelineCancer science2015

2015 Guidance on cancer immunotherapy development in early-phase clinical studies.

Guidance Development Review Committee, Working Group for Clinical Studies of Cancer Immunotherapy, Working Group for Effector Cell Therapy, Working Group for CMC/Non-clinical Studies, Working Group for Cancer Vaccines and Adjuvants, Working Group for Anti-immune Checkpoint Therapy and Comprehensive Cancer Immunotherapy, Biostatistics Subcommittee

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Guideline in Cancer science, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 17% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

7 authors.

Guidance Development Review Committee
Working Group for Clinical Studies of Cancer Immunotherapy
Working Group for Effector Cell Therapy
Working Group for CMC/Non-clinical Studies
Working Group for Cancer Vaccines and Adjuvants
Working Group for Anti-immune Checkpoint Therapy and Comprehensive Cancer Immunotherapy
Biostatistics Subcommittee

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of cancer immunotherapies is progressing rapidly with a variety of technological approaches. They consist of "cancer vaccines", which are based on the idea of vaccination, "effector cell therapy", classified as passive immunotherapy, and "inhibition of immunosuppression", which intends to break immunological tolerance to autoantigens or immunosuppressive environments characterizing antitumor immune responses. Recent reports showing clinical evidence of efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors and adoptive immunotherapies with tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and tumor-specific receptor gene-modified T cells indicate the beginning of a new era for cancer immunotherapy. This guidance summarizes ideas that will be helpful to those who plan to develop cancer immunotherapy. The aims of this guidance are to discuss and offer important points in early phase clinical studies of innovative cancer immunotherapy, with future progress in this field, and to contribute to the effective development of cancer immunotherapy aligned with the scope of regulatory science. This guidance covers cancer vaccines, effector cell therapy, and inhibition of immunosuppression, including immune checkpoint inhibitors.

Indexed as

Cancer VaccinesCell- and Tissue-Based TherapyClinical Trials as TopicHumansImmunotherapyResearch DesignCancer VaccinesCancer vaccinescell therapyclinical trialimmunotherapymonoclonal antibodies

Identifiers

PMID26767933
PMCPMC4714668
OpenAlexW2407569726

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