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ReviewDigestive diseases (Basel, Switzerland)2017

Treating Hepatobiliary Cancer: The Immunologic Approach.

A G Duffy, T F Greten

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Review in Digestive diseases (Basel, Switzerland), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

A G DuffyGastrointestinal Malignancies Section, Thoracic-GI Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
T F Greten

Funding

Clinical protocols for the treatment of GI cancerZIABC011343 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI GRETEN, TIM · 2010 to 2025
$4.8M
Intramural NIH HHS Z99 CA999999Intramural NIH HHS ZIA BC011343
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatobiliary cancer comprises a heterogeneous group of malignancies in which the standard treatments for advanced disease are minimally effective and evolve slowly over time. Like the majority of gastrointestinal cancers, with some notable exceptions, the impact of immune-based approaches is yet to be experienced. Notwithstanding this, the etiological background of hepatobiliary cancer - overlapping in almost every known causative or associated factor with inflammation - provides a strong clue that these approaches may have an impact on this group of diseases. This review seeks to put the management of hepatobiliary cancers in the context of its inflammation-based etiology, with the aim of pointing to the therapeutic opportunities in immune-based approaches currently entering the clinic or those that are about to do so.

Indexed as

ImmunotherapyBile Duct NeoplasmsCarcinoma, HepatocellularGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseHumansLiver NeoplasmsTranslational Research, BiomedicalCholangiocarcinomaHepatobiliaryImmuneImmune-evasionInflammation

Identifiers

PMID28468006
PMCPMC7900911

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