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ReviewCancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII2016

Concepts in glioma immunotherapy.

Michael Platten, Lukas Bunse, Wolfgang Wick, Theresa Bunse

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Review in Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27citing papers in PubMed
5.6field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. Vaccine Strategies in Gliomas.Current treatment options in neurology · 2018
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  19. Management of GBM: a problem of local recurrence.Journal of neuro-oncology · 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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Michael PlattenDKTK Clinical Cooperation Unit Neuroimmunology and Brain Tumor Immunology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany. m.platten@dkfz.de.
Lukas BunseDKTK Clinical Cooperation Unit Neuroimmunology and Brain Tumor Immunology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
Wolfgang WickDepartment of Neurology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 400, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
Theresa BunseDKTK Clinical Cooperation Unit Neuroimmunology and Brain Tumor Immunology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
Heidelberg University · DEGerman Cancer Research Center · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunotherapeutic concepts in neurooncology have been developed for many decades but have mainly been hampered by poor definition of relevant antigens and selective measures to target the central nervous system. Independent of the recent remarkable successes in clinical immunooncology with checkpoint inhibitors and vaccines, immunotherapy of brain tumors in general and gliomas in particular has evolved with novel neurooncology-specific concepts over the past years providing new phase 1 approaches of individualized immunotherapy to first phase three clinical trials. These concepts are driven by a high medical need in the absence of approved targeted therapies and refute the classic dogma that the central nervous system is immune-privileged and hence inaccessible to potent antitumor immunity. Instead, measures have been taken to improve the odds for successful immunotherapies, including rational targeting of relevant antigens and integration of immunotherapies into standard of care primary radiochemotherapy to increase the efficacy of antitumor immunity in a meaningful time window. This review highlights concepts and challenges associated with epitope discovery and selection and trial design.

Indexed as

Central Nervous SystemAnimalsAntigens, NeoplasmBrain NeoplasmsCancer VaccinesClinical Trials as TopicGliomaHumansImmune ToleranceImmunityImmunodominant EpitopesImmunotherapyAntigens, NeoplasmCancer VaccinesImmunodominant EpitopesCheckpoint inhibitionCIMT 2015EGFRvIIIGlioblastomaIDH1Vaccine

Identifiers

PMID27460064
PMCPMC11029493
OpenAlexW2502670097

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