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ReviewJournal for immunotherapy of cancer2025

Weal and woe of interleukin-18 in the T cell therapy of cancer.

Christoph Kessel, Claudia Rossig, Hinrich Abken

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Review in Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing 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

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
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  3. Cellular immunotherapy in melanoma: the next frontier in cancer treatment.Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2026
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  5. The Roles of Interleukin-18 in Inflammation and Autoimmune Disease.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Christoph KesselTranslational Inflammation Research, Department of Pediatric Rheumatology & Immunology, University of Münster Faculty of Medicine, Munster, Germany.
Claudia RossigDepartment of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, University Children's Hospital Muenster, Munster, Germany.
Hinrich AbkenDivision Genetic Immunotherapy, Leibniz Institute for Immunotherapy, Regensburg, Germany Hinrich.Abken@klinik.uni-regensburg.de.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy of solid cancer remains below expectations; adding cytokine help through IL-18 has shown remarkable efficacy in first clinical trials. As IL-18 is also a powerful driver of hyperinflammatory conditions, we discuss to what extent unleashing IL-18 is a double-edged sword in CAR T cell therapies.

Indexed as

Immunotherapy, AdoptiveInterleukin-18NeoplasmsT-LymphocytesHumansReceptors, Chimeric AntigenInterleukin-18Receptors, Chimeric AntigenAdoptive cell therapy - ACTChimeric antigen receptor - CARCytokineImmune related adverse event - irAET cell

Identifiers

PMID39809514
PMCPMC11749219

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