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ReviewJournal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society2018

Biomaterials for vaccine-based cancer immunotherapy.

Rui Zhang, Margaret M Billingsley, Michael J Mitchell

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Review in Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 76 papers.

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76citing papers in PubMed
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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

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

76 citing papers in PubMed, 191 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. The progress of tumor vaccines clinical trials in non-small cell lung cancer.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rui ZhangDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States.
Margaret M BillingsleyDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States.
Michael J MitchellDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States; Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States. Electronic address: mjmitch@seas.upenn.edu.
University of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

A data-driven drug delivery (4D) platform for probing and treating the chemoresistant bone marrow microenvironmentDP2TR002776 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI MITCHELL, MICHAEL J · 2018 to 2018
$2.4M
NCATS NIH HHS DP2 TR002776
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of therapeutic cancer vaccines as a means to generate immune reactivity against tumors has been explored since the early discovery of tumor-specific antigens by Georg Klein in the 1960s. However, challenges including weak immunogenicity, systemic toxicity, and off-target effects of cancer vaccines remain as barriers to their broad clinical translation. Advances in the design and implementation of biomaterials are now enabling enhanced efficacy and reduced toxicity of cancer vaccines by controlling the presentation and release of vaccine components to immune cells and their microenvironment. Here, we discuss the rational design and clinical status of several classes of cancer vaccines (including DNA, mRNA, peptide/protein, and cell-based vaccines) along with novel biomaterial-based delivery technologies that improve their safety and efficacy. Further, strategies for designing new platforms for personalized cancer vaccines are also considered.

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Biocompatible MaterialsCancer VaccinesAnimalsHumansImmunotherapyLymph NodesNeoplasmsPrecision MedicineBiocompatible MaterialsCancer VaccinesBiomaterialsCancer vaccineImmunotherapyNanomedicineNucleic acid deliveryPersonalized therapyTargeted deliveryTranslational research

Identifiers

PMID30312721
PMCPMC6355332
OpenAlexW2897063898

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