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ReviewFrontiers in oncology2022

Development of the B cell cancer vaccine HER-vaxx for the treatment of her-2 expressing cancers.

Nicholas J Ede, Anthony J Good, Joshua Tobias, Erika Garner-Spitzer, Christoph C Zielinski, Ursula Wiedermann

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Review in Frontiers in oncology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 23% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. HER2-targeted therapies beyond breast cancer - an update.Nature reviews. Clinical oncology · 2024
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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 at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nicholas J EdeImmunotherapy R&D Department, Imugene Limited, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Anthony J GoodImmunotherapy R&D Department, Imugene Limited, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Joshua TobiasInstitute of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Erika Garner-SpitzerInstitute of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Christoph C ZielinskiCentral European Cancer Center, Wiener Privatklinik, and Central European Cooperative Oncology Group (CECOG), Vienna, Austria.
Ursula WiedermannInstitute of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Medical University of Vienna · ATCentral European Cooperative Oncology Group · AT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Her-2/neu is a tumor-associated protein that is overexpressed in a number of malignancies, including advanced cancer of the stomach, and has been proposed as a human cancer vaccine target. Overexpression of Her-2/neu in human breast and gastric carcinomas correlates with a more aggressive course of disease that results in poorer overall survival rates and shorter times to disease progression than in patients with tumors without overexpression of Her-2/neu. Cancer vaccines have the ability to stimulate the native immune system and in particular engineered B cell epitopes can elicit high affinity polyclonal antibodies with similar efficacy to Her-2 monoclonal antibodies such as trastuzumab (Roche). HER-Vaxx is under development as a therapeutic B cell vaccine for the treatment of gastric cancer in patients with Her-2/neu overexpressing metastatic or advanced adenocarcinoma of the stomach or gastroesophageal junction, referred to as advanced cancer of the stomach. P467-CRM197, the vaccine's immunogenic component, contains a single peptide antigen composed of 3 individual linear B cell epitope peptide sequences selected from the oncoprotein Her-2/neu that induce the patient's own B cells to produce endogenous anti-Her-2/neu antibodies. This review provides results from comprehensive preclinical studies encompassing primary and secondary pharmacodynamics, biodistribution and safety studies. These studies were performed to support clinical development of HER-Vaxx. Results from the GLP toxicology study in rodents showed that the vaccine did not produce any observable adverse effects suggesting that the doses proposed for the clinical trial should be well tolerated in patients.

Indexed as

cancer vaccineHER-2immunotherapyPD-1peptide

Identifiers

PMID36578947
PMCPMC9791928
OpenAlexW4311183344

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