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ReviewClinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research2020

Intratumoral Immunotherapy for Early-stage Solid Tumors.

Wan Xing Hong, Sarah Haebe, Andrew S Lee, C Benedikt Westphalen, Jeffrey A Norton, Wen Jiang, Ronald Levy

Registry-linked trialOpen access · bronzeAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07188246 (A Trial of Neoadjuvant, Hypofractionated Radiation, With Intratumoural Pembrolizumab Followed by Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy, in Stage 3 or High-risk Stage 2 Breast Cancer), which is not on this map. Cited by 111 papers.

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111citing papers in PubMed
7.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

NCT07188246 phase2recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2026, after this paper: background citation

A Trial of Neoadjuvant, Hypofractionated Radiation, With Intratumoural Pembrolizumab Followed by Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy, in Stage 3 or High-risk Stage 2 Breast Cancer

TypeinterventionalSponsorLondon Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph'sRan2026 to 2029Enrolled40ConditionsBreast Cancer, Breast Cancer Stage II, Breast Cancer Stage III, Breast Cancer InvasiveArmsRadiation, Pembrolizumab (KEYTRUDA®)
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

111 citing papers in PubMed, 172 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

7 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Wan Xing Hong *Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
Sarah Haebe *Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Andrew S LeeDepartment of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
C Benedikt WestphalenDepartment of Medicine III, University Hospital, LMU, Munich, Germany.
Jeffrey A NortonDepartment of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
Wen JiangDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.ORCID 0000-0001-9154-633X
Ronald LevyDivision of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California. Levy@stanford.edu.
LMU Klinikum · DEStanford Medicine · USShenzhen Bay Laboratory · CNStanford University · USThe University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · US

Funding

MOLECULAR &CELLULAR IMMUNOBIOLOGYT32AI007290 · NIAID · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Sean Curtis Bendall, Olivia M Martinez · 1985 to 2026
$27.0M
Enhancing Cancer Immunotherapy: Targeting the Tumor and Targeting the HostR35CA197353 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI LEVY, RONALD · 2016 to 2022
$6.1M
A Phagocytosis Modulating Nanomedicine for Targeted Breast Cancer ImmunotherapyK08CA241070 · NCI · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI JIANG, WEN · 2019 to 2021
$760k
NCI NIH HHS K08 CA241070NCI NIH HHS R35 CA197353NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007290
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The unprecedented benefits of immunotherapy in advanced malignancies have resulted in increased interests in exploiting immune stimulatory agents in earlier-stage solid tumors in the neoadjuvant setting. However, systemic delivery of immunotherapies may cause severe immune-related side-effects and hamper the development of combination treatments. Intratumoral delivery of neoadjuvant immunotherapy provides a promising strategy in harnessing the power of immunotherapy while minimizing off-target toxicities. The direct injection of immune stimulating agents into the tumor primes the local tumor-specific immunity to generate a systemic, durable clinical response. Intratumoral immunotherapy is a highly active area of investigation resulting in a plethora of agents, for example, immune receptor agonists, non-oncolytic and oncolytic viral therapies, being tested in preclinical and clinical settings. Currently, more than 20 neoadjuvant clinical trials exploring distinct intratumoral immune stimulatory agents and their combinations are ongoing. Practical considerations, including appropriate timing and optimal local delivery of immune stimulatory agents play an important role in safety and efficacy of this approach. Here, we discuss promising approaches in drug delivery technologies and opportunity for combining intratumoral immunotherapy with other cancer treatments and summarize the recent preclinical and clinical evidences that highlighted its promise as a part of routine oncologic care.

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AnimalsClinical Decision-MakingClinical Trials as TopicCombined Modality TherapyDisease ManagementHumansImmunotherapyInjections, IntralesionalNeoplasmsNeoplasm StagingPrognosisTime-to-TreatmentTreatment Outcome

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PMID32071116
PMCPMC7439755
OpenAlexW3007539640

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