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ReviewMolecular therapy oncolytics2021

Prognostic and therapeutic TILs of cervical cancer-Current advances and future perspectives.

Ying Tang, Anne X J Zhang, Guangyu Chen, Yanheng Wu, Wenyi Gu

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Review in Molecular therapy oncolytics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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46citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
5.5field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

46 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 80 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ying TangInstitute of Tumor, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China.
Anne X J ZhangGillion ITM Research Institute, Guangzhou Hongkeyuan, Guangzhou, China.
Guangyu ChenGillion ITM Research Institute, Guangzhou Hongkeyuan, Guangzhou, China.
Yanheng WuGillion ITM Research Institute, Guangzhou Hongkeyuan, Guangzhou, China.
Wenyi GuGillion ITM Research Institute, Guangzhou Hongkeyuan, Guangzhou, China.
Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine · CNUniversity of Queensland · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cervical cancer is a top lethal cancer for women worldwide. Although screening and vaccination programs are available in many countries, resulting in the decline of new cases, this is not true for developing countries where there are many new cases and related deaths. Cancer immunotherapy through adaptive cell therapy (ACT) has been applied in clinics, but now much attention is focused on autogenic tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL)-based therapy, which has shown more specificity and better ability to inhibit tumor growth. Data from melanoma and cervical cancers confirm that tumor-specific T cells in TILs can be expanded for more specific and effective ACT. Moreover, TILs are derived from individual patients and are ready to home back to kill tumor cells after patient infusion, aligning well with personalized and precision medicine. In addition to therapy, TIL cell types and numbers are good indicators of host immune response to the tumor, and thus they have significant values in prognosis. Because of the special relationship with human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, cervical cancer has some specialties in TIL-based prognosis and therapy. In this review, we summarize the recent advances in the prognostic significance of TILs and TIL-based therapy for cervical cancer and discuss related perspectives.

Indexed as

adaptive cell therapycancer immunotherapyCD4+ T cellsCD8+ T cellscervical cancerhuman papillomavirusregulatory T cellsTILstumor-infiltrating lymphocytestumor prognosis

Identifiers

PMID34553029
PMCPMC8430272
OpenAlexW3189007213

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