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ArticleMedical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research2021

Editorial: mRNA Vaccines and Immunotherapy in Oncology: A New Era for Personalized Medicine.

Dinah V Parums

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Article in Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 41% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The role of mRNA vaccines in infectious diseases: a new era of immunization.Tropical diseases, travel medicine and vaccines · 2025
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  4. Retracted: Editorial: mRNA Vaccines and Immunotherapy in Oncology: A New Era for Personalized Medicine.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Dinah V ParumsScience Editor, International Scientific Information, Inc., Melville, NY, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synthetic mRNA and the expression of therapeutic proteins have accelerated vaccine development to prevent infection and heralds a new era in targeted immunotherapy in oncology. Therapeutic mRNA vaccines rely on available tumor tissue for gene sequencing analysis to compare the patient's normal cellular DNA sequences and those of the tumor. Carrier-based mRNA vaccines for cancer immunotherapy are now in development that use delivery systems based on peptides, lipids, polymers, and cationic nano-emulsions. There have also been recent developments in dendritic cell-based mRNA vaccines. For patients with available tumor tissue samples, it is possible to develop mRNA vaccines that result in the expression of tumor antigens by antigen-presenting cells (APCs), resulting in innate and adaptive immune responses. Ongoing developments in mRNA immunotherapy include modifications in the route of administration and combined delivery of multiple mRNA vaccines with checkpoint inhibitors. This Editorial aims to present a brief overview of how mRNA immunotherapy may change the therapeutic landscape of personalized medicine for patients with solid malignant tumors.

Indexed as

Cancer VaccinesHumansImmunotherapyMedical OncologymRNA VaccinesNeoplasmsPrecision MedicineRNA, MessengerVaccines, SyntheticCancer VaccinesmRNA VaccinesRNA, MessengerVaccines, Synthetic

Identifiers

PMID33994538
PMCPMC8139131
OpenAlexW3163810189

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Registered trials

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