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ReviewBlood2017

Mechanistic approaches for the prevention and treatment of chronic GVHD.

Corey S Cutler, John Koreth, Jerome Ritz

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Review in Blood, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 64 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
64citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
8.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

64 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 112 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Ixazomib for Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease Prophylaxis following Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation.Biology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation · 2020
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  10. Balancing immunity with Tregs.Nature biotechnology · 2026
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4 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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 1 institution in 1 country.

Corey S CutlerDivision of Hematologic Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.ORCID 0000-0001-8728-4314
John KorethDivision of Hematologic Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Jerome RitzDivision of Hematologic Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.ORCID 0000-0001-5526-4669
Brigham and Women's Hospital · US

Funding

Project 3: Humoral Targets and B Cell Biology in Chronic Graft-vs.-Host DiseaseP01CA142106 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI RITZ, JEROME · 2009 to 2019
$17.5M
Manipulation of Immune Responsiveness after Hematopoietic Cell TransplantationR01CA183559 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI RITZ, JEROME, SOIFFER, ROBERT JON · 2013 to 2017
$3.7M
Reconstitution of Regulatory T Cells After Stem Cell TransplantationR01CA183560 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI RITZ, JEROME, SOIFFER, ROBERT JON · 2013 to 2017
$2.5M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA142106NCI NIH HHS R01 CA183559NCI NIH HHS R01 CA183560
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clinical outcomes for patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation continue to improve, but chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) remains a common toxicity and major cause of nonrelapse morbidity and mortality. Treatment of chronic GVHD has previously relied primarily on corticosteroids and other broadly immune suppressive agents. However, conventional immune suppressive agents have limited clinical efficacy in chronic GVHD, and prolonged immune suppressive treatments result in additional toxicities that further limit clinical recovery from transplant and return to normal daily function. Recent advances in our understanding of the immune pathology of chronic GVHD offer the possibility that new therapeutic approaches can be directed in more precise ways to target specific immunologic mechanisms and pathways. In this review, we briefly summarize current standard treatment options and present new therapeutic approaches that are supported by preclinical studies and early-phase clinical trials suggesting that these approaches may have clinical utility for treatment or prevention of chronic GVHD. Further evaluation of these new therapeutic options in well-designed prospective multicenter trials are needed to identify the most effective new agents and improve outcomes for patients with chronic GVHD.

Indexed as

AnimalsChronic DiseaseGraft vs Host DiseaseHematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationHumansImmunosuppressive AgentsTransplantation, HomologousImmunosuppressive Agents

Identifiers

PMID27821505
PMCPMC5216263
OpenAlexW2549544658

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