Live vaccines—a short‐cut to cancer viro‐immunotherapy

Abstract Tumour immunotherapies have been a breakthrough in clinical oncology but only a few patients benefit from this progress. Additional interventions that sensitize immunologically cold tumours for the administration of checkpoint modifiers are urgently needed. In this issue of EMBO Molecular M...

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Main Authors: Thomas C Wirth, Julia Niemann, Florian Kühnel
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Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2019-11-01
Series:EMBO Molecular Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.15252/emmm.201911496
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description Abstract Tumour immunotherapies have been a breakthrough in clinical oncology but only a few patients benefit from this progress. Additional interventions that sensitize immunologically cold tumours for the administration of checkpoint modifiers are urgently needed. In this issue of EMBO Molecular Medicine, Aznar et al present the already approved yellow fever vaccine 17D as an oncolytic agent for tumour immunoactivation. In tumour‐bearing mice, they demonstrated a convincing synergy of the vaccine with CD137 agonistic antibodies resulting in significantly improved survival.
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spelling doaj-art-affb6d67f5ca4f5fa188d3709c0b00cc2025-08-20T03:43:10ZengSpringer NatureEMBO Molecular Medicine1757-46761757-46842019-11-011211210.15252/emmm.201911496Live vaccines—a short‐cut to cancer viro‐immunotherapyThomas C Wirth0Julia Niemann1Florian Kühnel2Deparment of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical SchoolDeparment of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical SchoolDeparment of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical SchoolAbstract Tumour immunotherapies have been a breakthrough in clinical oncology but only a few patients benefit from this progress. Additional interventions that sensitize immunologically cold tumours for the administration of checkpoint modifiers are urgently needed. In this issue of EMBO Molecular Medicine, Aznar et al present the already approved yellow fever vaccine 17D as an oncolytic agent for tumour immunoactivation. In tumour‐bearing mice, they demonstrated a convincing synergy of the vaccine with CD137 agonistic antibodies resulting in significantly improved survival.https://doi.org/10.15252/emmm.201911496
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