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ArticleEcancermedicalscience2016

Cancer immunotherapy: from the lab to clinical applications-Potential impact on cancer centres' organisation.

Linda Cairns, Sandrine Aspeslagh, Andrea Anichini, Jon Amund Kyte, Christian Blank, Paolo Ascierto, Nicolle Rekers, Per Thor Straten, Ahmad Awada

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Article in Ecancermedicalscience, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Linda CairnsEuropean Institute of Oncology, Via Ripamonti, 435, 20141 Milan. Italy.
Sandrine AspeslaghGustave Roussy, 114 rue Edouard Vaillant, 94805 Villejuif cedex, France.
Andrea AnichiniFondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Via Giacomo Venezian, 1, 20133 Milano, Italy.
Jon Amund KyteOslo University Hospital, Postboks 4950 Nydalen, 0424 Oslo, Norway.
Christian BlankNetherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Paolo AsciertoIstituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS 'Fondazione G. Pascale', Via Mariano Semmola, 80131 Napoli, Italy.
Nicolle RekersMaastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht UMC+ P. Debyelaan 25 6229 HX Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Per Thor StratenUniversity of Copenhagen Herlev Hospital, Herlev Ringvej 75, 2730 Herlev, Denmark.
Ahmad AwadaInstitut Jules Bordet, 1, rue Héger-Bordet, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This report covers the Immunotherapy sessions of the 2016 Organisation of European Cancer Institutes (OECI) Oncology Days meeting, which was held on 15th-17th June 2016 in Brussels, Belgium. Immunotherapy is a potential cancer treatment that uses an individual's immune system to fight the tumour. In recent years significant advances have been made in this field in the treatment of several advanced cancers. Cancer immunotherapies include monoclonal antibodies that are designed to attack a very specific part of the cancer cell and immune checkpoint inhibitors which are molecules that stimulate or block the inhibition of the immune system. Other cancer immunotherapies include vaccines and T cell infusions. This report will summarise some of the research that is going on in this field and will give us an update on where we are at present.

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cancer vaccinesimmunotherapymonoclonal antibodies

Identifiers

PMID27994647
PMCPMC5130327

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