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ReviewWorld journal of gastroenterology2018

Colorectal cancer vaccines: Tumor-associated antigens

Sandra Wagner, Christina S Mullins, Michael Linnebacher

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Review in World journal of gastroenterology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 90 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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90citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.0field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

90 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 141 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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sandra WagnerSection of Molecular Oncology and Immunotherapy, General Surgery, University Medical Center, Rostock D-18057, Germany.
Christina S MullinsSection of Molecular Oncology and Immunotherapy, General Surgery, University Medical Center, Rostock D-18057, Germany.
Michael LinnebacherSection of Molecular Oncology and Immunotherapy, General Surgery, University Medical Center, Rostock D-18057, Germany. michael.linnebacher@med.uni-rostock.de.
University of Rostock · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Therapeutic options for the treatment of colorectal cancer (CRC) are diverse but still not always satisfying. Recent success of immune checkpoint inhibition treatment for the subgroup of CRC patients suffering from hyper-mutated tumors suggests a permanent role of immune therapy in the clinical management of CRC. Substantial improvement in treatment outcome could be achieved by development of efficient patient-individual CRC vaccination strategies. This mini-review summarizes the current knowledge on the two general classes of targets: tumor-associated antigens (TAAs) and tumor-specific antigens. TAAs like carcinoembryonic antigen and melanoma associated antigen are present in and shared by a subgroup of patients and a variety of clinical studies examined the efficacy of different TAA-derived peptide vaccines. Combinations of several TAAs as the next step and the development of personalized TAA-based peptide vaccines are discussed. Improvements of peptide-based vaccines achievable by adjuvants and immune-stimulatory chemotherapeutics are highlighted. Finally, we sum up clinical studies using tumor-specific antigens - in CRC almost exclusively neoantigens - which revealed promising results; particularly no severe adverse events were reported so far. Critical progress for clinical outcomes can be expected by individualizing neoantigen-based peptide vaccines and combining them with immune-stimulatory chemotherapeutics and immune checkpoint inhibitors. In light of these data and latest developments, truly personalized neoantigen-based peptide vaccines can be expected to fulfill modern precision medicine's requirements and will manifest as treatment pillar for routine clinical management of CRC.

Indexed as

Adjuvants, ImmunologicAntigens, NeoplasmAntineoplastic Agents, ImmunologicalCancer VaccinesColorectal NeoplasmsCombined Modality TherapyHumansImmunotherapyTreatment OutcomeVaccinationVaccines, SubunitAdjuvants, ImmunologicAntigens, NeoplasmAntineoplastic Agents, ImmunologicalCancer VaccinesVaccines, SubunitCancer vaccinesColorectal neoplasmImmunotherapyNeoantigen(s)Neoplasm antigenTumor-associated antigensTumor-specific antigens

Identifiers

PMID30622371
PMCPMC6319136
OpenAlexW2908052181

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