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ReviewBlood reviews2018

Cell therapies for hematological malignancies: don't forget non-gene-modified t cells!

Melanie L Grant, Catherine M Bollard

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Review in Blood reviews, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 16% 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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 25 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 1 institution in 1 country.

Melanie L GrantProgram for Cell Enhancement and Technologies for Immunotherapy, Children's National Health System, Washington, DC, USA.
Catherine M BollardProgram for Cell Enhancement and Technologies for Immunotherapy, Children's National Health System, Washington, DC, USA; Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA. Electronic address: cbollard@cnmc.org.
Children's National · US

Funding

TUMOR VACCINESP01CA015396 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI HESS, ALLAN D · 1985 to 2016
$38.1M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA015396
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cell therapy currently performs an important role in the treatment of patients with various hematological malignancies. The response to the cell therapy is regulated by multiple factors including the patient's immune system status, genetic profile, stage at diagnosis, age, and underlying disease. Cell therapy that does not require genetic manipulation can be mediated by donor lymphocyte infusion strategies, selective depletion in the post-transplant setting and the ex vivo expansion of antigen-specific T cells. For hematologic malignancies, cell therapy is contributing to enhanced clinical responses and overall survival and the immune response to cell therapy is predictive of response in multiple cancer types. In this review we summarize the available T cell therapeutics that do not rely on gene engineering for the treatment of patients with blood cancers.

Indexed as

Cell- and Tissue-Based TherapyAntigens, NeoplasmCombined Modality TherapyGenetic TherapyHematologic NeoplasmsHematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationHumansImmune SystemImmunotherapy, AdoptiveLymphocyte DepletionT-Cell Antigen Receptor SpecificityTissue DonorsT-LymphocytesTransplantation, HomologousAntigens, NeoplasmAdoptive T cell therapyEBVLeukemiaLymphomaTumor associated antigens

Identifiers

PMID29198753
PMCPMC5970011
OpenAlexW2770578347

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