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ReviewCell research2017

Immune targets and neoantigens for cancer immunotherapy and precision medicine.

Rong-Fu Wang, Helen Y Wang

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Review in Cell research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 135 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
135citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
15.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

135 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 229 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Rong-Fu WangCenter for Inflammation and Epigenetics, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Helen Y WangCenter for Inflammation and Epigenetics, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Houston Methodist · USTexas A&M University · US

Funding

Transport Oncophysics CoreU54CA210181 · NCI · METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI WANG, RONGFU · 2016 to 2020
$9.3M
Novel Strategies for Intervention of Inflammatory Diseases and Cancer - Research Supplement to R01-CA101795R01CA101795 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI WANG, RONGFU · 2004 to 2022
$4.6M
Development of Novel Vaccines for Cocaine AbuseR01DA030338 · NIDA · METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI ORSON, FRANK M, WANG, RONGFU · 2010 to 2014
$1.6M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA101795NCI NIH HHS U54 CA210181NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA030338
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Harnessing the immune system to eradicate malignant cells is becoming a most powerful new approach to cancer therapy. FDA approval of the immunotherapy-based drugs, sipuleucel-T (Provenge), ipilimumab (Yervoy, anti-CTLA-4), and more recently, the programmed cell death (PD)-1 antibody (pembrolizumab, Keytruda), for the treatment of multiple types of cancer has greatly advanced research and clinical studies in the field of cancer immunotherapy. Furthermore, recent clinical trials, using NY-ESO-1-specific T cell receptor (TCR) or CD19-chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), have shown promising clinical results for patients with metastatic cancer. Current success of cancer immunotherapy is built upon the work of cancer antigens and co-inhibitory signaling molecules identified 20 years ago. Among the large numbers of target antigens, CD19 is the best target for CAR T cell therapy for blood cancer, but CAR-engineered T cell immunotherapy does not yet work in solid cancer. NY-ESO-1 is one of the best targets for TCR-based immunotherapy in solid cancer. Despite the great success of checkpoint blockade therapy, more than 50% of cancer patients fail to respond to blockade therapy. The advent of new technologies such as next-generation sequencing has enhanced our ability to search for new immune targets in onco-immunology and accelerated the development of immunotherapy with potentially broader coverage of cancer patients. In this review, we will discuss the recent progresses of cancer immunotherapy and novel strategies in the identification of new immune targets and mutation-derived antigens (neoantigens) for cancer immunotherapy and immunoprecision medicine.

Indexed as

ImmunotherapyPrecision MedicineAmino Acid SequenceAntigens, NeoplasmCancer VaccinesHumansLymphocyte ActivationNeoplasmsAntigens, NeoplasmCancer Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID28025978
PMCPMC5223235
OpenAlexW2566775074

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