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ReviewClinical immunology (Orlando, Fla.)2016

Metastatic melanoma and immunotherapy.

Benjamin Herzberg, David E Fisher

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Review in Clinical immunology (Orlando, Fla.), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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35citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

35 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Cell Death Modalities in Therapy of Melanoma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  11. Malignant Melanoma Presenting as Spinal Cord and Pleural Lesions.Case reports in oncological medicine · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Benjamin HerzbergDepartment of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, United States. Electronic address: bherzberg@partners.org.
David E FisherDepartment of Dermatology and MGH Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA.

Funding

Transcriptional mechanisms and melanomaP01CA163222 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI DAVID E FISHER · 2013 to 2026
$25.3M
The MITF transcriptional network: melanoma risk and carcinogenesisR01AR043369 · NIAMS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI DAVID E FISHER · 1996 to 2026
$9.4M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA163222NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR043369
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Harnessing the immune system to attack cancer cells has represented a holy grail for greater than 100years. While prospects of tumor-selective durable immune based therapies have provided small clinical signals for many decades, recent years have demonstrated a virtual explosion in progress. Melanoma has led the field of cancers in which immunotherapy has produced major clinical inroads. The most significant and impactful immunotherapies for melanoma utilize immune checkpoint inhibition to stimulate T cell mediated tumor killing. The major targets of checkpoint blockade have thus far been CTLA4 and PD1, two key receptors for central and peripheral immune tolerance. This review discusses current understanding of how these checkpoint blockade therapeutics have led to major clinical responses in patients with advanced melanoma. It is likely that we are poised to see significantly greater anti-cancer immunotherapy efficacy, both in improving response rates and durability for melanoma, and for other less immunogenic malignancies.

Indexed as

ImmunotherapyAnimalsHumansMelanomaT-LymphocytesCheckpointImmunotherapyMelanomaT cellVitiligo

Identifiers

PMID27430520
PMCPMC5569887

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