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ReviewCancer medicine2022

Immunotherapies for hepatocellular carcinoma.

Justin K H Liu, Andrew F Irvine, Rebecca L Jones, Adel Samson

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Review in Cancer medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
40citing papers in PubMed
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

40 citing papers in PubMed, 68 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Justin K H LiuLeeds Institute of Medical Research at St James's (LIMR), School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5406-8751
Andrew F IrvineLeeds Institute of Medical Research at St James's (LIMR), School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK.
Rebecca L JonesLeeds Liver Unit, St James's University Hospital, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK.
Adel SamsonLeeds Institute of Medical Research at St James's (LIMR), School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3081-7850
University of Leeds · GBLeeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · GB

Funding

Cancer Research UK 29039
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cases of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are rapidly rising. This is particularly the case in the Western world, as a result of increasing rates of chronic liver disease, secondary to lifestyle-associated risk factors and the lack of an established screening programme for the general population. Traditionally, radical/curative treatment options for HCC, including liver transplantation and surgical resection are reserved for the minority of patients, presenting with an early stage cancer. For patients with advanced disease, Sorafenib and Lenvatinib were, until recently, the only licensed systemic treatments, and provided only limited survival benefits at the cost of a multitude of potential side effects. Recent scientific advances in the field of cancer immunotherapy have renewed significant interest in advanced HCC, in order to fulfil this apparent area of unmet clinical need. This has led to the success and recent regulatory approval of an Atezolizumab/Bevacizumab combination for the first-line treatment of advanced HCC following results from the IMbrave150 clinical trial in 2019, with further immune checkpoint inhibitors currently undergoing testing in advanced clinical trials. Furthermore, other cancer immunotherapies, including chimeric antigen receptor T-cells, dendritic cell vaccines and oncolytic viruses are also in early stage clinical trials, for the treatment of advanced HCC. This review will summarise the major approaches that have been and are currently in development for the systemic treatment of advanced HCC, their advantages, drawbacks, and predictions of where this revolutionary treatment field will continue to travel for the foreseeable future.

Indexed as

Carcinoma, HepatocellularLiver NeoplasmsHumansImmunotherapySorafenibSorafenibadoptive cell therapycancer immunotherapydendritic cell therapyhepatocellular carcinomaimmune checkpoint inhibitorsoncolytic viruses

Identifiers

PMID34953051
PMCPMC8817091
OpenAlexW4205743832

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