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ReviewToxins2021

Real Impact of Novel Immunotherapy Drugs in Cancer. The Experience of 10 Last Years.

Andreas Koulouris, Christos Tsagkaris, Michail Nikolaou

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Review in Toxins, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  5. Adoptive cell therapies in thoracic malignancies.Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII · 2022
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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.

Andreas KoulourisDepartment of Medical Oncology University General Hospital of Heraklion, University of Crete, 71003 Heraklion, Greece.
Christos TsagkarisFaculty of Medicine, University of Crete, 71003 Heraklion, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-4250-574X
Michail Nikolaou1st Oncology Department, "Saint Savas" Anticancer-Oncology Hospital, 11522 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-7215-6296

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intense research on immunotherapy has been conducted during recent years. As advances in the field have started changing the landscape of cancer therapy, it is necessary to assess the impact of immunotherapeutic modalities in the treatment of various cancers. Ten years ago, in 2011, ipilimumab was the first of the newest immunotherapeutic drugs against cancer to be approved by the FDA. Then several drugs followed and formed a therapeutic arsenal to fight cancer. Initial studies were performed on metastatic patients, but there are currently several studies in patients with potentially curable cancers. All these developments have created a new environment for oncology which we will present in this article. This review examines the current evidence related to the impact of immunotherapy on various cancers and discusses its potential clinical and research implications, including its effectiveness in comparison to other treatment modalities (chemotherapy, radiotherapy), its toxicity and prospective research opportunities. While constant updates and further research is critical to understand the impact of immunotherapy in cancer therapy, not only does it seem to be important to assess the current state of knowledge highlighting the success but also to determine the challenging aspects of cancer immunotherapy.

Indexed as

ImmunotherapyAnimalsAntineoplastic Agents, ImmunologicalDiffusion of InnovationHumansImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsMolecular Targeted TherapyNeoplasmsTime FactorsTreatment OutcomeAntineoplastic Agents, ImmunologicalImmune Checkpoint Inhibitorscancer treatmentcheckpoint inhibitorsCTLA-4immunotherapyPD-1PD-L1toxicity

Identifiers

PMID33672017
PMCPMC7919369

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