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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2025

Benign tumors broaden the field of application for immunotherapy.

Mohamed A Youssef, Hisham Al-Sharif, Brian T McGrath, Maria M Picken, I Caroline Le Poole

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Mohamed A Youssef *Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States.
Hisham Al-Sharif *Department of Medical Oncology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States.
Brian T McGrathDepartments of Dermatology, Microbiology and Immunology, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, North Western University, Chicago, IL, United States.
Maria M PickenDepartment of Pathology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, United States.
I Caroline Le PooleDepartments of Dermatology, Microbiology and Immunology, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, North Western University, Chicago, IL, United States.

Funding

Time to ATTAC: Adoptive Transfer of T cells Against gp100+ Cells to treat LAMR01HL165841 · NHLBI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI I. Caroline Le Poole, MICHAEL I. NISHIMURA · 2023 to 2026
$2.4M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL165841
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunotherapy has shown significant potential for treating malignancies. Not yet widely considered is the opportunity to employ immunotherapy for the treatment of benign tumors. By focusing on targetable antigens expressed following specific genetic changes associated with individual benign tumors, immunotherapy may provide an effective approach to benign tumor treatment, circumventing the need for more conventional surgery. Immunotherapies can specifically recognize and target tumor cells, which could be especially beneficial for benign tumors given the extended timeframe available for treatment. Thus, benign tumors, offering a greater window of opportunity for treatment and a relatively stable phenotype associated with a limited mutation burden, can derive great benefit from immunotherapeutic approaches targeting antigens uniquely associated with each condition.

Indexed as

ImmunotherapyNeoplasmsAnimalsAntigens, NeoplasmHumansAntigens, Neoplasmadoptive T cell therapyantigensbenign tumorscheckpoint inhibitorsimmunotherapymutationstumor vaccines

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PMID40630962
PMCPMC12235263

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