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ReviewPrecision clinical medicine2018

Recent updates on cancer immunotherapy.

Ming Liu, Fukun Guo

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Review in Precision clinical medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers.

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67citing papers in PubMed
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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

67 citing papers in PubMed.

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7 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

2 authors.

Ming LiuDepartment of Medical Oncology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China.
Fukun GuoDivision of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.

Funding

Novel Signaling Function of Cdc42 GTPase in vivoR01GM108661 · NIGMS · CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSP MED CTR · PI GUO, FUKUN · 2014 to 2017
$1.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM108661
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Traditional cancer therapies include surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, all of which are typically non-specific approaches. Cancer immunotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that helps the immune system fight cancer. Cancer immunotherapy represents a standing example of precision medicine: immune checkpoint inhibitors precisely target the checkpoints; tumor infiltrating lymphocytes, TCR T cells, and CAR T cells precisely kill cancer cells through tumor antigen recognition; and cancer vaccines are made from patient-derived dendritic cells, tumor cell DNA, or RNA, or oncolytic viruses, thus offering a type of personalized medicine. This review will highlight up-to-date advancement in most, if not all, of the immunotherapy strategies.

Indexed as

cancerimmune evasionimmunotherapy

Identifiers

PMID30687562
PMCPMC6333045

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