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ReviewMelanoma research2018

Combination immunotherapies implementing adoptive T-cell transfer for advanced-stage melanoma.

Kendra C Foley, Michael I Nishimura, Tamson V Moore

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Review in Melanoma research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 17% 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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Adoptive cell therapies in thoracic malignancies.Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII · 2022
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  6. Membrane-Anchored and Tumor-Targeted IL12 (attIL12)-PBMC Therapy for Osteosarcoma.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2022
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  11. Differentiation and Regulation of TFrontiers in immunology · 2021
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  14. Cutaneous melanoma and the immunotherapy revolution (Review).International journal of oncology · 2020
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  15. Serological landscape of cytokines in cutaneous melanoma.Cancer biomarkers : section A of Disease markers · 2019
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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kendra C FoleyDepartment of Surgery, Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois, USA.
Michael I Nishimura
Tamson V Moore
Loyola University Chicago · US

Funding

TCR TRANSDUCED CDB T CELLS FOR ADOPTIVE IMMUNOTHERAPYP01CA154778 · NCI · LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO · PI NISHIMURA, MICHAEL I. · 2011 to 2015
$15.4M
Tumor Recognition by TCR Transduced CD4+ and CD8+T CellsR01CA090873 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI NISHIMURA, MICHAEL I · 2001 to 2004
$1.3M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA154778NCI NIH HHS R01 CA090873
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunotherapy is a promising method of treatment for a number of cancers. Many of the curative results have been seen specifically in advanced-stage melanoma. Despite this, single-agent therapies are only successful in a small percentage of patients, and relapse is very common. As chemotherapy is becoming a thing of the past for treatment of melanoma, the combination of cellular therapies with immunotherapies appears to be on the rise in in-vivo models and in clinical trials. These forms of therapies include tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, T-cell receptor, or chimeric antigen receptor-modified T cells, cytokines [interleukin (IL-2), IL-15, IL-12, granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor, tumor necrosis factor-α, interferon-α, interferon-γ], antibodies (αPD-1, αPD-L1, αTIM-3, αOX40, αCTLA-4, αLAG-3), dendritic cell-based vaccines, and chemokines (CXCR2). There are a substantial number of ongoing clinical trials using two or more of these combination therapies. Preliminary results indicate that these combination therapies are a promising area to focus on for cancer treatments, especially melanoma. The main challenges with the combination of cellular and immunotherapies are adverse events due to toxicities and autoimmunity. Identifying mechanisms for reducing or eliminating these adverse events remains a critical area of research. Many important questions still need to be elucidated in regard to combination cellular therapies and immunotherapies, but with the number of ongoing clinical trials, the future of curative melanoma therapies is promising.

Indexed as

Combined Modality TherapyHumansImmunotherapy, AdoptiveMelanomaNeoplasm StagingSkin NeoplasmsT-Lymphocytes

Identifiers

PMID29521881
PMCPMC5912975
OpenAlexW2802330361

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