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ArticleJournal for immunotherapy of cancer2021

Search for effective treatments in patients with advanced refractory melanoma continues: can novel intratumoral therapies deliver?

Yana G Najjar

Erratum issuedOpen access · goldAbstract read
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Article in Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 38% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pilot Study of ONCOS-102 and Pembrolizumab: Remodeling of the Tumor Microenvironment and Clinical Outcomes in Anti-PD-1-Resistant Advanced Melanoma.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2023
    Article
  2. Bioinformatics analysis identifiesAnnals of translational medicine · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yana G NajjarUPMC Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA najjaryg@upmc.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-0138-1664
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most patients with advanced melanoma ultimately fail immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy because of primary or acquired resistance. There remains a critical unmet need for new therapies that function via alternative immune activation mechanisms to safely trigger an antitumor immune response in patients with ICI-refractory disease. This commentary discusses the recent failures and hope for novel intratumoral therapies under development in the advanced refractory melanoma setting, outlining key mechanistic differences that may be critical to yielding success in this difficult-to-treat population.

Indexed as

HumansImmunotherapyMelanomaOncolytic Virotherapyimmunotherapymelanomaoncolytic viruses

Identifiers

PMID34312244
PMCPMC8314703
OpenAlexW3183613100

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Registered trials

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