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ReviewPharmacology & therapeutics2017

Current modalities in cancer immunotherapy: Immunomodulatory antibodies, CARs and vaccines.

Jason Lohmueller, Olivera J Finn

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Review in Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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51citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

51 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 90 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jason LohmuellerUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Immunology, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Olivera J FinnUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Immunology, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Electronic address: ojfinn@pitt.edu.
University of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

Training in Cellular & Molecular Mechanisms of Tumor RejectionT32CA082084 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Robert J Binder, Dario AA Vignali · 1999 to 2026
$9.2M
Immunoprevention and immunosurveillance of human non-viral cancersR35CA210039 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI FINN, OLIVERA J · 2016 to 2022
$6.0M
NCI NIH HHS R35 CA210039NCI NIH HHS T32 CA082084
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Successes of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy in curing patients with otherwise lethal cancers have validated immunotherapy as a treatment for cancer and have inspired excitement for its broader potential. Most promising is the ability of each approach to eliminate bulky and advanced-stage cancers and to achieve durable cures. Despite this success, to date only a subset of cancer patients and a limited number of cancer types respond to these therapies. A major goal now is to expand the types of cancer and number of patients who can be successfully treated. To this end a multitude of immunotherapies are being tested clinically in new combinations, and many new immunomodulatory antibodies and CARs are in development. A third major immunotherapeutic approach with renewed interest is cancer vaccines. While over 20years of therapeutic cancer vaccine trials have met with limited success, these studies have laid the groundwork for the use of therapeutic vaccines in combination with other immunotherapies or alone as prophylactic cancer vaccines. Prophylactic vaccines are now poised to revolutionize cancer prevention as they have done for the prevention of infectious diseases. In this review we examine three major cancer immunotherapy modalities: immunomodulatory antibodies, CAR T cell therapy and vaccines. For each we describe the current state of the art and outline major challenges and research directions forward.

Indexed as

ImmunotherapyAnimalsAntibodies, MonoclonalCancer VaccinesHumansNeoplasmsReceptors, Antigen, T-CellAntibodies, MonoclonalCancer VaccinesReceptors, Antigen, T-CellAdoptive cell therapyCancer immunotherapyCancer vaccineChimeric antigen receptor (CAR)Immune checkpoint inhibitorImmunomodulator

Identifiers

PMID28322974
PMCPMC5600680
OpenAlexW2596050358

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