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ReviewNature immunology2025

Cancer vaccines as enablers of immunotherapy.

Samir N Khleif, Seema Gupta

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Review in Nature immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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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

24 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

2 authors.

Samir N KhleifCenter for Advanced Immunotherapy Research, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA. snk48@georgetown.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2707-5224
Seema GuptaCenter for Advanced Immunotherapy Research, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0106-595X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunotherapy has transformed cancer care, but most patients do not respond and ultimately develop resistance. A central barrier to durable efficacy is the absence of robust, tumor-specific T cell responses, particularly in tumors characterized by low antigenicity and an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment. Cancer vaccines, long explored with limited clinical success as monotherapies, are emerging as enablers of immunotherapy by restoring T cell priming, broadening neoantigen-specific repertoires and converting tumors from 'cold' to 'hot'. Advances in genomics and computational neoantigen prediction have reinvigorated the field. In this Review, we synthesize current knowledge on the immunobiology of T cell priming in cancer, define how cancer vaccines can address the multifaceted mechanisms of immune evasion, and outline principles for designing next-generation vaccine-based combinations. We also propose that integration of vaccines into immunotherapy regimens, guided by tumor-specific immune contexture, antigen selection and treatment sequencing, might expand the benefit of immunotherapy to a broader patient population.

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Cancer VaccinesImmunotherapyNeoplasmsT-LymphocytesAnimalsAntigens, NeoplasmHumansTumor EscapeTumor MicroenvironmentAntigens, NeoplasmCancer Vaccines

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