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ArticleHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics2023

Portrait of an autologous cancer vaccine: Then and now.

David Berd

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Article in Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

David BerdBiovaxys Technology Corp, Etobicoke, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-2974-9085
AXYS Technologies (Canada) · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Active immunotherapy of cancer with therapeutic vaccines has been the subject of experimental and clinical studies for at least 50 years. Our approach has employed 1) autologous, human cancer cells because of extensive evidence that tumor rejection antigens may differ between multiple tumors of the same histology; 2) the immunopotentiating drug, cyclophosphamide; and 3) haptens, particularly dinitrophenyl. Multiple clinical trials in 455 patients with melanoma and ovarian cancer have shown that administration of haptenized vaccines at the proper dosage-schedule regularly induces T cell-mediated immunity to autologous tumor cells as measured by delayed-type hypersensitivity. Moreover, the vaccine causes changes in the tumor site suggestive of an immune reaction, including inflammation and infiltration with CD8+ T lymphocytes that are activated and produce cytokines. The T cell response is oligoclonal, and dominant Vβ families differ between patients. Studies of measurable metastases show clinically important tumor regression. Commercial development of this technology is clearly feasible.

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Cancer VaccinesMelanomaAntigens, NeoplasmDinitrobenzenesFemaleHumansInflammationAntigens, NeoplasmCancer VaccinesDinitrobenzenesActive immunotherapycancer vaccineshaptensimmunopotentiationmelanomaovarian cancer

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PMID36755486
PMCPMC10012894
OpenAlexW4319656695

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