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ReviewJournal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)2019

The Next Generation of Immunotherapy for Cancer: Small Molecules Could Make Big Waves.

William G Kerr, John D Chisholm

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Review in Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers.

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62citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

62 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.

William G KerrDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY 13210; kerrw@upstate.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-4720-7135
John D ChisholmDepartment of Chemistry, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244; and.ORCID 0000-0001-9518-2393

Funding

Role of SHIP in NK Cell BiologyR01HL072523 · NHLBI · UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY · PI KERR, WILLIAM GARROW · 2002 to 2014
$4.3M
Chemical Inhibition of SHIP1 To Facilitate Allogeneic Bone Marrow TransplantationR01HL107127 · NHLBI · UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY · PI KERR, WILLIAM GARROW · 2011 to 2014
$1.6M
SHIP and Immunoregulatory Cell FunctionR01HL085580 · NHLBI · UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY · PI KERR, WILLIAM GARROW · 2008 to 2011
$1.5M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL072523NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL085580NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL107127
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

After decades of intense effort, therapeutics that leverage the immune system to fight cancer have now been conclusively demonstrated to be effective. Immuno-oncology has arrived and will play a key role in the treatment of cancer for the foreseeable future. However, the search for novel methods to improve immune responses to cancer continues unabated. Toward this end, small molecules that can either reduce immune suppression in the tumor milieu or enhance activation of cytotoxic lymphocyte responses to the tumor are actively being pursued. Such novel treatment strategies might be used as monotherapies or combined with other cancer therapies to increase and broaden their efficacy. In this article, we provide an overview of small molecule immunotherapeutic approaches for the treatment of cancer. Over the next decade and beyond, these approaches could further enhance our ability to harness the immune system to combat cancer and thus become additional weapons in the oncologist's armory.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntineoplastic AgentsB7-H1 AntigenDrug Therapy, CombinationHumansImmune ToleranceImmunizationImmunotherapyNeoplasmsTumor MicroenvironmentAntineoplastic AgentsB7-H1 Antigen

Identifiers

PMID30587569
PMCPMC6330242

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