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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2018

Combination Immunotherapy: Taking Cancer Vaccines to the Next Level.

Jeremy M Grenier, Stephen T Yeung, Kamal M Khanna

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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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

38 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Akkermania muciniphila: a rising star in tumor immunology.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2024
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  8. Advances in bio-immunotherapy for castration-resistant prostate cancer.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2023
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  13. Cell-penetrating peptides enhance peptide vaccine accumulation and persistence in lymph nodes to drive immunogenicity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  16. The roles of PD-1/PD-L1 in the prognosis and immunotherapy of prostate cancer.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jeremy M GrenierDepartment of Immunology, University of Connecticut Health, Farmington, CT, United States.
Stephen T YeungDepartment of Microbiology, New York University Langone School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States.
Kamal M KhannaDepartment of Immunology, University of Connecticut Health, Farmington, CT, United States.

Funding

Training Program in Immunology and Inflammation.T32AI100853 · NIAID · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI Susan Ruth Schwab · 2012 to 2026
$4.5M
Visualizing the innate and adaptive immune response to Listeria monocytogenesR01AI097375 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · PI KHANNA, KAMAL MOHAN · 2012 to 2016
$2.1M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI097375NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI100853
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the advent of checkpoint blockade therapies, immunotherapy is now a critical modality for the treatment of some cancers. While some patients respond well to checkpoint blockade, many do not, necessitating the need for other forms of therapy. Vaccination against malignancy has been a long sought goal of science. For cancers holding a microbial etiology, vaccination has been highly effective in reducing the incidence of disease. However, vaccination against established malignancy has been largely disappointing. In this review, we discuss efforts to develop diverse vaccine modalities in the treatment of cancer with a particular focus on melanoma. Recent work has suggested that vaccines targeting patient-specific tumor mutations may be more relevant than those targeting unmutated proteins. Nonetheless, tumor cells utilize many strategies to evade host immunity. It is likely that the full potential of cancer vaccination will only be realized when vaccines are combined with other therapies targeting tumor immunoevasive mechanisms. By modulating inhibitory molecules, regulatory immune cells, and the metabolic resources and demands of T cells, scientists and clinicians can ensure vaccine-stimulated T cells are fully functional within the immunosuppressive tumor microevironment.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntibodies, MonoclonalAntigens, NeoplasmCancer VaccinesCombined Modality TherapyCostimulatory and Inhibitory T-Cell ReceptorsHumansImmunotherapyMelanomaTumor EscapeTumor MicroenvironmentVaccinationAntibodies, MonoclonalAntigens, NeoplasmCancer VaccinesCostimulatory and Inhibitory T-Cell Receptorscancer vaccinesCD8-positive T-lymphocytesimmunotherapyprogram cell deathtumor

Identifiers

PMID29623082
PMCPMC5874308

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