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Commentary/Editorials

Section edited by Christian Capitini, MD

Reaction to and/or perspectives on significant events in the field in the basic science area. May address a critical challenge, elaborate or extend a conversation of a focal article, provide an application of a theoretical perspective, or shed light on a particular issue in the field.

  1. Content type: Commentary

    Oncolytic viruses are an emerging class of immunotherapy agents for cancer treatment. In this issue of JITC, Machiels et al. reports early phase data from an oncolytic adenovirus given by intravenous (IV) admi...

    Authors: Howard L. Kaufman and Praveen K. Bommareddy

    Citation: Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 2019 7:26

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  2. Content type: Commentary

    Tumors responding to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have a higher level of immune infiltrates and/or an Interferon (IFN) signature indicative of a T-cell-inflamed phenotype. Melanoma and lung cancer demon...

    Authors: Saman Maleki Vareki

    Citation: Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 2018 6:157

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  3. Content type: Commentary

    Immune checkpoint inhibitors which activate the host’s immune system to fight cancer have brought dramatic improvements to the overall survival of a growing number of deadly malignancies. Their use comes at th...

    Authors: Khashayar Esfahani

    Citation: Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 2018 6:154

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  5. Content type: Commentary

    Commentary on « Ipilimumab induced vasculitis » by Padda A. et al., J Immunother Cancer. 2018;6:12. The authors diagnosed a small vessel vasculitis following treatment with anti-CTLA-4 (ipilimumab) for a resec...

    Authors: Thibault Comont, Vincent Sibaud, Loïc Mourey, Pierre Cougoul and Odile Beyne-Rauzy

    Citation: Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 2018 6:120

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  6. Content type: Commentary

    An updated survival analysis by Callahan et al. published in the February 1, 2018 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology reported a 3-year overall survival (OS) rate of 63% for 94 patients with previously trea...

    Authors: Mark R. Albertini

    Citation: Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 2018 6:80

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  9. Content type: Hypothesis

    Anti-cancer immunotherapy is encountering its own checkpoint. Responses are dramatic and long lasting but occur in a subset of tumors and are largely dependent upon the pre-existing immune contexture of indivi...

    Authors: Tolga Turan, Deepti Kannan, Maulik Patel, J. Matthew Barnes, Sonia G. Tanlimco, Rongze Lu, Kyle Halliwill, Sarah Kongpachith, Douglas E. Kline, Wouter Hendrickx, Alessandra Cesano, Lisa H. Butterfield, Howard L. Kaufman, Thomas J. Hudson, Davide Bedognetti, Francesco Marincola…

    Citation: Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 2018 6:50

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  12. Content type: Commentary

    Immune checkpoint inhibitors have emerged as a promising therapeutic option for metastatic cancers. However, they have been associated with inflammatory adverse reactions in various organ systems. A recent art...

    Authors: Marc-Elie Nader, Jeffrey N. Myers and Paul W. Gidley

    Citation: Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 2017 5:24

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  17. Content type: Commentary

    Inbred mice are the mainstay for preclinical cancer assessment of potential therapeutics, especially immune-based approaches. However, the use of young, lean, inbred mice housed under specific-pathogen-free co...

    Authors: William J. Murphy

    Citation: Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 2016 4:88

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  24. Content type: Commentary

    The recent use of T cell-based cancer immunotherapies, such as adoptive T-cell transfer and checkpoint blockade, yields increasing clinical benefit to patients with different cancer types. However, decrease of...

    Authors: Sonia T. Chelbi and Greta Guarda

    Citation: Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 2016 4:39

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  25. Content type: Commentary

    The Common Rule is a set of ethical principles that provide guidance on the management of human subjects taking part in biomedical and behavioral research in the United States. The elements of the Common Rule ...

    Authors: Howard L. Kaufman, Lisa H. Butterfield, Pierre G. Coulie, Sandra Demaria, Robert L. Ferris, Jérôme Galon, Samir N. Khleif, Ira Mellman, Pamela S. Ohashi, Willem W. Overwijk, Suzanne L. Topalian and Francesco M. Marincola

    Citation: Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 2016 4:37

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  26. Content type: Commentary

    Mounting an immune response sufficient to eradicate a tumor is the goal of modern immunotherapy. Single agent therapies with checkpoint inhibitors or costimulatory molecule agonists are effective only for a sm...

    Authors: Stefanie N. Linch and William L. Redmond

    Citation: Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 2016 4:31

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  27. Content type: Commentary

    The recent study by Hodi et al. published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology has evaluated unconventional response patterns during PD-1 inhibitor therapy using immune-related response criteria (irRC) in compa...

    Authors: Mizuki Nishino

    Citation: Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 2016 4:30

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  29. Content type: Commentary

    Attention has recently focused on new cancer immunotherapy protocols aiming to activate T cell mediated anti-tumor responses. To this end, administration of antibodies that target inhibitory molecules regulati...

    Authors: Per thor Straten and Federico Garrido

    Citation: Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 2016 4:23

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  30. Content type: Commentary

    Advances in cancer immunotherapy are leading to its increasing and successful application for the treatment of solid–tissue cancers. Despite the recent advances there are still significant barriers, in particu...

    Authors: Steven K. Grossenbacher, Robert J. Canter and William J. Murphy

    Citation: Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 2016 4:19

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  31. Content type: Commentary

    The innate and adaptive immune systems have evolved together to fight infection and cancerous tissues. The innate immune system emerges first with the adaptive immune system following, both ostensibly being br...

    Authors: Carolyn Rosinsky and Paul Andrew Antony

    Citation: Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 2016 4:16

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  33. Content type: Commentary

    Reliable mouse models are key in the discovery and development of novel anticancer treatments. Non-invasive monitoring techniques such as bioluminescence imaging (BLI) are useful tools to determine tumor engra...

    Authors: Thaïs Baert, Tina Verschuere, Anaïs Van Hoylandt, Rik Gijsbers, Ignace Vergote and An Coosemans

    Citation: Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 2015 3:57

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