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Next-Generation mRNA Vaccines in Melanoma: Advances in Delivery and Combination Strategies.

Stefano Zoroddu, Luigi Bagella

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Review in Cells, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
10citing 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

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Integrating multi-omics data for next-generation cancer research and precision medicine.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  6. [Clinical Progress and Prospects of mRNA Tumor Drugs].Sichuan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Sichuan University. Medical science edition · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Stefano ZorodduDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Viale San Pietro 43/b, 07100 Sassari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4423-9745
Luigi BagellaDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Viale San Pietro 43/b, 07100 Sassari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2815-037X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines have redefined cancer immunotherapy, offering unparalleled flexibility to encode tumor-specific antigens and to be adapted to individual mutational landscapes. Melanoma, with its high mutational burden and responsiveness to immune checkpoint blockade, has become the leading model for translating these advances into clinical benefit. Recent innovations in delivery-ranging from lipid nanoparticles and polymeric carriers to biomimetic hybrids and intratumoral administration-are dismantling long-standing barriers of stability, targeting, and immunogenicity. Clinical milestones, including the randomized phase IIb KEYNOTE-942, show that adding the personalized neoantigen vaccine mRNA-4157 (V940) to pembrolizumab prolonged recurrence-free survival versus pembrolizumab alone (HR 0.561, 95% CI 0.309-1.017; 18-month RFS 79% vs. 62%), with the ASCO 3-year update reporting 2.5-year RFS 74.8% vs. 55.6% and sustained distant metastasis-free survival benefit in resected high-risk melanoma. Parallel preclinical studies highlight the potential of multifunctional platforms co-delivering cytokines or innate agonists to reshape the tumor microenvironment and achieve durable systemic immunity. As artificial intelligence drives epitope selection and modular manufacturing accelerates personalization, mRNA vaccines may have the potential to transition from adjuncts to main therapies in melanoma and beyond.

Indexed as

Cancer VaccinesMelanomamRNA VaccinesRNA, MessengerAnimalsHumansImmunotherapyCancer VaccinesmRNA VaccinesRNA, Messengercombination therapiesintratumoral deliverylipid nanoparticles (LNPs)melanoma immunotherapymRNA vaccines

Identifiers

PMID41002441
PMCPMC12468083

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