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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2024

Intratumoral injection and retention hold promise to improve cytokine therapies for cancer.

Karsten Sauer, Kavya Rakhra, Kaida Wu, Naveen K Mehta, Jennifer S Michaelson, Patrick A Baeuerle

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2024. 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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6 authors.

Karsten SauerCullinan Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA, United States.
Kavya RakhraCullinan Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA, United States.
Kaida WuCullinan Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA, United States.
Naveen K MehtaCullinan Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA, United States.
Jennifer S MichaelsonCullinan Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA, United States.
Patrick A BaeuerleCullinan Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA, United States.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As powerful activators of the immune system, cytokines have been extensively explored for treating various cancers. But despite encouraging advances and some drug approvals, the broad adoption of cytokine therapies in the clinic has been limited by low response rates and sometimes severe toxicities. This in part reflects an inefficient biodistribution to tumors or a pleiotropic action on bystander cells and tissues. Here, we first review these issues and then argue for the intratumoral delivery of engineered cytokine fusion proteins that have been optimized for tumor retention as a potential solution to overcome these limitations and realize the potential of cytokines as highly effective therapeutics for cancer.

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cancerCLN-617collagencytokineIL-12IL-2immunotherapyintratumoral

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PMID39252938
PMCPMC11381304

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