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ReviewJournal of cancer research and clinical oncology2016

Immunotherapy for pancreatic cancer.

Elias Kotteas, Muhammad Wasif Saif, Konstantinos Syrigos

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Review in Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. The Impact of a Centralised Pancreatic Cancer Service: a Case Study of Wales, UK.Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract · 2022
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  12. Immunodeficiency in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma with Diabetes Revealed by Comparative Genomics.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2017
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  13. Strategies for Increasing Pancreatic Tumor Immunogenicity.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 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.

Elias KotteasOncology Unit, 3rd Department of Internal Medicine, Sotiria General Hospital, Athens University School of Medicine, 152 Mesogeion Avenue, Athens, Greece. ilkotteas@hotmail.com.
Muhammad Wasif SaifSection of GI and Experimental Therapeutics, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
Konstantinos SyrigosOncology Unit, 3rd Department of Internal Medicine, Sotiria General Hospital, Athens University School of Medicine, 152 Mesogeion Avenue, Athens, Greece.
Sotiria General Hospital · GRTufts University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionPancreatic cancer is among the most lethal malignancies resistant to conventional therapies. The vast majority of patients is diagnosed with advanced/metastatic disease and consequently has grim prognosis. Despite the available options with nab-paclitaxel and gemcitabine or 5-fluorouracil/leucovorin/oxaliplatin, chemotherapy offers a modest survival benefit. Targeted therapy in combination with chemotherapy has not shown significant improvement in treatment outcomes. The urgent need for new therapies has turned the spotlights on immunotherapy. Immunotherapy in pancreatic cancer recruits and activates T cells which recognize tumor-specific antigens.

resultsPreclinical models have demonstrated that chemotherapy or targeted therapy works synergistically with immunotherapy. A growing body of evidence has already been gathered regarding the efficacy of checkpoint inhibitors, vaccines, adoptive T cell therapy, monoclonal antibodies, and cytokines in patients with pancreatic cancer.

conclusionsMany ongoing trials are aiming to identify treatments which could combine efficacy with limited toxicity. In this article, we review the available data concerning multiple aspects of immunotherapy in pancreatic cancer.

Indexed as

ImmunotherapyCancer VaccinesCell TransplantationHumansMalePancreatic NeoplasmsCancer VaccinesAntibodiesCheckpoint inhibitorsCytokinesImmunotherapyPancreatic cancerVaccines

Identifiers

PMID26843405
PMCPMC11819358
OpenAlexW2260614540

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