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ReviewAnnals of surgical oncology2025

The Landmark Series: Cancer Vaccines for Solid Tumors.

Emily K Ninmer, Feifan Xu, Craig L Slingluff

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Review in Annals of surgical oncology, 2025. 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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7citing papers in PubMed
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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.

  1. Review
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  3. Immunotherapy for Solid Tumours: Current Clinical Landscape and Future Directions.European surgical research. Europaische chirurgische Forschung. Recherches chirurgicales europeennes · 2026
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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

3 authors.

Emily K Ninmer *Department of Surgery/Division of Surgical Oncology and the Human Immune Therapy Center, Cancer Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Feifan Xu *Department of Pathology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Craig L SlingluffDepartment of Surgery/Division of Surgical Oncology and the Human Immune Therapy Center, Cancer Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA. cls8h@virginia.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunotherapy has become an integral part of the treatment for solid tumors. Cancer vaccines represent a potentially powerful class of immunotherapeutic agents to drive antitumor immunity. Cancer vaccine development involves selecting immunogenic target antigens expressed by tumor cells that can be effectively delivered for uptake by antigen-presenting cells to generate a robust adaptive immune response against tumor. While numerous cancer vaccines have been shown to produce antigen-specific immune responses, translating promising results of immunogenicity from early-phase trials into durable clinical benefit in larger randomized trials has remained elusive. Recent findings support new enthusiasm for several cancer vaccine approaches for solid tumors. This review will discuss landmark historic clinical trials in cancer vaccine development and strategies to optimize cancer vaccines to achieve improved clinical efficacy.

Indexed as

Cancer VaccinesImmunotherapyNeoplasmsAntigens, NeoplasmClinical Trials as TopicHumansAntigens, NeoplasmCancer VaccinesCancer vaccineImmunotherapyNeoantigensShared antigens

Identifiers

PMID39704984
PMCPMC11811251

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