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ArticleOncoimmunology

Potentiating cancer vaccine efficacy in liver cancer.

Maria Tagliamonte, Annacarmen Petrizzo, Angela Mauriello, Maria Lina Tornesello, Franco M Buonaguro, Luigi Buonaguro

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Article in Oncoimmunology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 25% of its field
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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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  19. Advances in immunotherapy for hepatocellular carcinoma.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Maria TagliamonteLab of Cancer Immunoregulation Unit.
Annacarmen PetrizzoLab of Cancer Immunoregulation Unit.
Angela MaurielloLab of Cancer Immunoregulation Unit.
Maria Lina TorneselloLab of Molecular Biology & Viral Oncology, Dept Experimental Oncology, Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, "Fondazione Pascale" - IRCCS, Naples, Italy.
Franco M BuonaguroLab of Molecular Biology & Viral Oncology, Dept Experimental Oncology, Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, "Fondazione Pascale" - IRCCS, Naples, Italy.
Luigi BuonaguroLab of Cancer Immunoregulation Unit.
Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS "Fondazione G. Pascale" · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common liver malignancy with a poor prognosis and an overall 5-year survival rate of approximately 5-6%. This is due because standard of care treatment options are limited and none of them shows a sufficient efficacy. HCC is an "inflammation-induced cancer" and preliminary preclinical and clinical data suggest that immunotherapeutic approaches may be a good alternative candidate for the treatment of HCC patients improving the dismal prognosis associated with this cancer. However, recent findings strongly suggest that an optimal immunotherapy in HCC requires the combination of an immune activator with immune modulators, aiming at compensating the strong liver immune suppressive microenvironment. One of the most promising strategy could be represented by the combination of a cancer vaccine with immunomodulatory drugs, such as chemotherapy and checkpoint inhibitors. Very limited examples of such combinatorial strategies have been evaluated in HCC to date, because HCC easily develops resistance to standard chemotherapy, which is also poorly tolerated by patients with liver cirrhosis. The present review describes the most update knowledge in this field.

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checkpoint inhibitorschemotherapycombinatorial strategyliver cancermetronomic chemotherapymodels of anticancer vaccinationtherapeutic trialstherapeutic vaccinationVaccine

Identifiers

PMID30288355
PMCPMC6169594
OpenAlexW2884945023

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