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ReviewBiomedicines2021

Antibody Conjugates for Sarcoma Therapy: How Far along Are We?

Letizia Polito, Giulia Calafato, Massimo Bortolotti, Cecilia Chiarelli Olivari, Stefania Maiello, Andrea Bolognesi

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Review in Biomedicines, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
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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

16 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Diagnosis and Management of Soft-Tissue Sarcomas: Current Insights.Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Global research & reviews · 2026
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  9. Panobinostat enhances NK cell cytotoxicity in soft tissue sarcoma.Clinical and experimental immunology · 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

6 authors.

Letizia PolitoDepartment of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine-DIMES, General Pathology Section, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8051-4981
Giulia CalafatoDepartment of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine-DIMES, General Pathology Section, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy.
Massimo BortolottiDepartment of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine-DIMES, General Pathology Section, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9030-2237
Cecilia Chiarelli OlivariDepartment of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine-DIMES, General Pathology Section, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy.
Stefania MaielloDepartment of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine-DIMES, General Pathology Section, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9809-6001
Andrea BolognesiDepartment of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine-DIMES, General Pathology Section, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7497-4586

Funding

Fondazione CARISBO Project 2019.0539
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sarcomas are one of the most difficult type of cancer to manage and treat because of their extremely heterogeneous molecular and morphological features. Despite the progress made over the years in the establishment of standard protocols for high and low grading/staging sarcoma patients, mostly with chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy, 50% of treated patients experience relapse episodes. Because of this, in the last 20 years, new therapeutic approaches for sarcoma treatment have been evaluated in preclinical and clinical studies. Among them, antibody-based therapies have been the most studied. Immunoconjugates consist of a carrier portion, frequently represented by an antibody, linked to a toxic moiety, i.e., a drug, toxin, or radionuclide. While the efficacy of immunoconjugates is well demonstrated in the therapy of hematological tumors and more recently also of epithelial ones, their potential as therapeutic agents against sarcomas is still not completely explored. In this paper, we summarize the results obtained with immunoconjugates targeting sarcoma surface antigens, considering both preclinical and clinical studies. To date, the encouraging results obtained in preclinical studies allowed nine immunoconjugates to enter clinical trials, demonstrating the validity of immunotherapy as a promising pharmacological tool also for sarcoma therapy.

Indexed as

antibodybacterial toxinscancer therapydrug deliveryimmunoconjugatesimmunotherapyradionuclidesribosome-inactivating proteinssarcoma

Identifiers

PMID34440182
PMCPMC8392509

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