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ReviewCancers2018

Tune Up In Situ Autovaccination against Solid Tumors with Oncolytic Viruses.

Teresa Nguyen, Naze G Avci, Dong Ho Shin, Naiara Martinez-Velez, Hong Jiang

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Review in Cancers, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 19 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

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Teresa NguyenDepartment of Neuro-Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 6767 Bertner St., Houston, TX 77030, USA. tnguyen36@mdanderson.org.
Naze G AvciNeurosurgery Research, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX 77030, USA. ngavci@houstonmethodist.org.
Dong Ho ShinDepartment of Neuro-Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 6767 Bertner St., Houston, TX 77030, USA. dshin4@mdanderson.org.ORCID 0000-0002-0135-0817
Naiara Martinez-VelezPediatric Department, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, 31008 Pamplona, Spain. nmartinez.20@alumni.unav.es.
Hong JiangDepartment of Neuro-Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 6767 Bertner St., Houston, TX 77030, USA. hjiang@mdanderson.org.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · USClinica Universidad de Navarra · ESHouston Methodist · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the progress of immunotherapy in cancer, oncolytic viruses (OVs) have attracted more and more attention during the past decade. Due to their cancer-selective and immunogenic properties, OVs are considered ideal candidates to be combined with immunotherapy to increase both specificity and efficacy in cancer treatment. OVs preferentially replicate in and lyse cancer cells, resulting in in situ autovaccination leading to adaptive anti-virus and anti-tumor immunity. The main challenge in OV approaches is how to redirect the host immunity from anti-virus to anti-tumor and optimize the clinical outcome of cancer patients. Here, we summarize the conceptual updates on oncolytic virotherapy and immunotherapy in cancer, and the development of strategies to enhance the virus-mediated anti-tumor immune response, including: (1) arm OVs with cytokines to modulate innate and adaptive immunity; (2) combining OVs with immune checkpoint inhibitors to release T cell inhibition; (3) combining OVs with immune co-stimulators to enhance T cell activation. Future studies need to be enforced on developing strategies to augment the systemic effect on metastasized tumors.

Indexed as

cytokineimmune checkpoint inhibitorimmune co-stimulatorin situ autovaccinationoncolytic virus

Identifiers

PMID29857493
PMCPMC6025332
OpenAlexW2802778399

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