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ReviewVaccines2025

mRNA and DNA-Based Vaccines in Genitourinary Cancers: A New Frontier in Personalized Immunotherapy.

Jasmine Vohra, Gabriela Rodrigues Barbosa, Leonardo O Reis

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Review in Vaccines, 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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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jasmine VohraDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai 400037, India.
Gabriela Rodrigues BarbosaINCT UroGen, National Institute of Science, Technology and Innovation in Genitourinary Cancer (INCT), Campinas 13083-970, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-3386-8581
Leonardo O ReisINCT UroGen, National Institute of Science, Technology and Innovation in Genitourinary Cancer (INCT), Campinas 13083-970, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0003-2092-414X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genitourinary (GU) cancers, including prostate, bladder, and renal cancers, represent a significant burden on global health. Conventional treatments, while effective in certain contexts, face limitations due to tumor heterogeneity, therapeutic resistance, and relapse. Recent advances in cancer immunotherapy, particularly in the development of personalized mRNA and DNA-based vaccines, have opened new avenues for precise and durable antitumor responses. These vaccines are being developed to leverage neoantigen identification and next-generation sequencing technologies, with the goal of tailoring immunotherapeutic interventions to individual tumor profiles. mRNA vaccines offer rapid, non-integrative, and scalable, with encouraging results reported in infectious diseases and early-phase cancer trials. DNA vaccines, known for their stability and ease of modification, show promise in generating robust cytotoxic T-cell responses. This review discusses the current landscape, preclinical findings, and ongoing clinical trials of mRNA and DNA-based vaccines in GU cancers, highlighting delivery technologies, combination strategies with immune checkpoint inhibitors, and future challenges, including tumor immune evasion and regulatory hurdles. Integrating immunogenomics and artificial intelligence into vaccine design is poised to further enhance precision in cancer vaccine development. As GU malignancies remain a leading cause of cancer-related morbidity and mortality, mRNA and DNA vaccine strategies represent a promising and rapidly evolving area of investigation in oncology.

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bladder cancerDNA vaccinesgenitourinary cancerimmunotherapymRNA vaccinesneoantigenspersonalized cancer vaccineprostate cancerrenal cell carcinomatumor microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID41012105
PMCPMC12474112

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