Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28933390›Full record

ReviewDiseases (Basel, Switzerland)2016

Targeted Therapy of Hepatitis B Virus-Related Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Present and Future.

Sarene Koh, Anthony Tanoto Tan, Lietao Li, Antonio Bertoletti

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Review in Diseases (Basel, Switzerland), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sarene KohSingapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore 117609, Singapore. sarene_koh@sics.a-star.edu.sg.
Anthony Tanoto TanEmerging Infectious Diseases (EID) Program, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore 169857, Singapore. anthony.tan@duke-nus.edu.sg.
Lietao LiLion TCR Private Limited Singapore, Singapore 069113, Singapore. lietao.li@gmail.com.
Antonio BertolettiSingapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore 117609, Singapore. antonio@duke-nus.edu.sg.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer immunotherapy using a patient's own T cells redirected to recognize and kill tumor cells has achieved promising results in metastatic melanoma and leukemia. This technique involves harnessing a patient's T cells and then delivering a gene that encodes a new T cell receptor (TCR) or a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) that allow the cells to recognize specific cancer antigens. The prospect of using engineered T cell therapy for persistent viral infections like hepatitis B virus (HBV) and their associated malignancies is promising. We recently tested in a first-in-man clinical trial, the ability of HBV-specific TCR-redirected T cells to target HBsAg-productive hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and demonstrated that these redirected T cells recognized HCC cells with HBV-DNA integration [1] We discuss here the possibility to use HBV-specific TCR-redirected T cells targeting hepatitis B viral antigens as a tumor specific antigen in patients with HBV-related HCC, and the potential challenges facing the development of this new immunotherapeutic strategy.

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HBVimmunotherapyliver tumorT cell engineering

Identifiers

PMID28933390
PMCPMC5456313

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