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Trial reportOncoimmunology2020

Anti-cancer immunotherapy using cancer-derived multiple epitope-peptides cocktail vaccination clinical studies in patients with refractory/persistent disease of uterine cervical cancer and ovarian cancer [phase 2].

Satoshi Takeuchi, Masahiro Kagabu, Tadahiro Shoji, Yukari Nitta, Toru Sugiyama, Junya Sato, Yusuke Nakamura

Open access · goldAbstract readClinical Trial, Phase II
In one paragraph

Trial report in Oncoimmunology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 34% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  4. Targeting MELK in tumor cells and tumor microenvironment: from function and mechanism to therapeutic application.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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  7. Tumor vaccines: Toward multidimensional anti-tumor therapies.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2023
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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 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Satoshi TakeuchiDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, Yahaba town, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-8868-6462
Masahiro KagabuDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, Yahaba town, Japan.
Tadahiro ShojiDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, Yahaba town, Japan.
Yukari NittaDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, Yahaba town, Japan.
Toru SugiyamaDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, Yahaba town, Japan.
Junya SatoDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, Yahaba town, Japan.
Yusuke NakamuraDepartment of Cancer, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Iwate Medical University · JPJapanese Foundation For Cancer Research · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We had conducted phase 1/2 studies of cancer vaccination therapy using neo-tumor antigens in patients with refractory/persistent cervical cancer (CC) and ovarian cancer (OC) to assess the feasibility and efficacy. Enrollees must be refractory/persistent disease for usual treatments with Human Leukocyte Antigen-A*0201 or A*2402. The targets were epitope peptides obtained from driver genes in surviving pathways as follows: for CC A*0201, peptides from Up Regulating Lung Cancer 10 gene (URLC10) and Hypoxia-inducible gene 2 (HIG-2) and for OC A*0201, HIG2, VEGFR (vascular epithelial growth factor receptor) 1 and 2 were used. For CC A*2402, Forkhead Box M1 (FOXM1), Maternal Embryonic Leucine zipper Kinase (MELK), and Holliday Junction Recognition Protein (HJURP) were used. For OC A*2402, cocktails of peptides from FOXM1, MELK, HJURP, VEGFR1, and VEGFR2 were used. Subcutaneous administration was performed with adjuvant weekly. The toxicity profiles and tumor-response were analyzed in eight-week interval. Sixty-six patients were accrued, and 64 were evaluable for adverse events (AEs), and 35 for response. AEs of G2/3 dermatologic reaction (DR) of injection site had been identified in 15.6% and no other severe AEs were detected. Response rate in OC and CC were 22.9% and 20%, respectively. Median overall survival showed longer in performance status (PS) 0 (versus PS1/2), in CRP negative (versus positive) and in DR positive (versus negative) such as 8.7 m versus 1.2 m (

Indexed as

Ovarian NeoplasmsUterine Cervical NeoplasmsEpitopesFemaleHumansImmunotherapyPeptidesProtein Serine-Threonine KinasesVaccinationEpitopesMELK protein, humanPeptidesProtein Serine-Threonine Kinasescervical cancerHLA-A restricted peptidesovarian cancerpeptides vaccination immunotherapypersistentrefractory

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PMID33235818
PMCPMC7671072
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