Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34140957›Full record

ReviewFrontiers in immunology2021

Cell Therapy With TILs: Training and Taming T Cells to Fight Cancer.

Amrendra Kumar, Reese Watkins, Anna E Vilgelm

Open access · goldAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 86 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
86citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
9.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

86 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 138 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Trial
  3. Trial
  4. Review
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Review
  9. Article
  10. Tumor organoid-immune cell co-culture systems for precision oncology.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026
    Review
  11. Review
  12. Review
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Review
  17. Review
  18. Application of adoptive cell therapy in malignant melanoma.Journal of translational medicine · 2025
    Review
  19. Review
  20. Article

26 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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Amrendra KumarDepartment of Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States.
Reese WatkinsDepartment of Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States.
Anna E VilgelmDepartment of Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States.
The Ohio State University · US

Funding

Combining senescence-inducing and senolytic agents to improve melanoma therapyR37CA233770 · NCI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI VILGELM, ANNA E · 2019 to 2025
$2.4M
NCI NIH HHS R37 CA233770
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The rationale behind cancer immunotherapy is based on the unequivocal demonstration that the immune system plays an important role in limiting cancer initiation and progression. Adoptive cell therapy (ACT) is a form of cancer immunotherapy that utilizes a patient's own immune cells to find and eliminate tumor cells, however, donor immune cells can also be employed in some cases. Here, we focus on T lymphocyte (T cell)-based cancer immunotherapies that have gained significant attention after initial discoveries that graft-versus-tumor responses were mediated by T cells. Accumulating knowledge of T cell development and function coupled with advancements in genetics and data science has enabled the use of a patient's own (autologous) T cells for ACT (TIL ACTs). In TIL ACT, tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) are collected from resected tumor material, enhanced and expanded

Indexed as

Immunotherapy, AdoptiveAnimalsHumansLymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingNeoplasmsPhenotypeT-LymphocytesTreatment OutcomeTumor Microenvironmentadoptive cell therapy (ACT)cell therapyimmunotherapyresponse biomarkersT-lymphocytestoxicitytumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL)

Identifiers

PMID34140957
PMCPMC8204054
OpenAlexW3169119752

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.