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ReviewCancers2021

Role and Clinical Utility of Cancer/Testis Antigens in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

Sharon Changshan Wu, Karl Münger

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In one paragraph

Review in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 31% 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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sharon Changshan WuMolecular Microbiology Program, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
Karl MüngerDepartment of Developmental, Molecular, and Chemical Biology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
Tufts University · US

Funding

MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAM AT TUFTS UNIVERSITYT32GM008448 · NIGMS · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI CHIN, MICHAEL T · 1994 to 2022
$9.1M
BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY OF HPV E7 IN HUMAN EPITHELIAL CELLSR01CA066980 · NCI · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI MUNGER, KARL · 1996 to 2019
$7.4M
Mouse Model of Human Papillomavirus PathogenesisR01CA228543 · NCI · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI LAMBERT, PAUL F., MUNGER, KARL · 2019 to 2023
$2.3M
Regulation of human papillomavirus pathogenesis by long non-coding RNAsR21AI147176 · NIAID · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI MUNGER, KARL · 2019 to 2020
$446k
Mechanistic studies on the unique set of accessory proteins encoded by the gamma 6 human papillomavirusesR21AI166786 · NIAID · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI MUNGER, KARL · 2021 to 2022
$446k
NCI NIH HHS CA228543NCI NIH HHS CA66980NCI NIH HHS R01 CA228543NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI147176NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI166786NIGMS NIH HHS GM008448
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer/testis (CT) antigens exhibit selective expression predominantly in immunoprivileged tissues in non-pathological contexts but are aberrantly expressed in diverse cancers. Due to their expression pattern, they have historically been attractive targets for immunotherapies. A growing number of studies implicate CT antigens in almost all hallmarks of cancer, suggesting that they may act as cancer drivers. CT antigens are expressed in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas. However, their role in the pathogenesis of these cancers remains poorly studied. Given that CT antigens hold intriguing potential as therapeutic targets and as biomarkers for prognosis and that they can provide novel insights into oncogenic mechanisms, their further study in the context of head and squamous cell carcinoma is warranted.

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CT antigensHNSCCHPV

Identifiers

PMID34830845
PMCPMC8616139
OpenAlexW3213826545

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