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Infection, immunity and cancer vaccines

Section edited by Christophe Nicot

This section focuses on all aspects of infectious agents associated with cancer and tumor immunology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, tumor immunity, immunotherapy, cancer vaccines, viral carcinogenesis and virus-host interactions.

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  1. Investigating how the immune system functions during malignancies is crucial to developing novel therapeutic strategies. Natural killer (NK) cells, an important component of the innate immune system, play a vi...

    Authors: Rauf Bhat and Jean Rommelaere

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2013 13:367

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  2. To explore the necessity of maintenance, efficacy of low-dose and superiority of various combination therapies of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) in treatment of superficial bladder cancer (BCa).

    Authors: Shimiao Zhu, Yang Tang, Kai Li, Zhiqun Shang, Ning Jiang, Xuewu Nian, Libin Sun and Yuanjie Niu

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2013 13:332

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  3. Malignant pleural effusions (MPE) are a common and fatal complication in cancers including lung or breast cancers, or malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM). MPE animal models and immunotherapy trials in MPM pat...

    Authors: Arnaud Scherpereel, Bogdan Dragos Grigoriu, Marc Noppen, Thomas Gey, Bachar Chahine, Simon Baldacci, Jacques Trauet, Marie-Christine Copin, Jean-Paul Dessaint, Henri Porte and Myriam Labalette

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2013 13:324

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  4. The quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine has been provided in Australia through the National Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Program since April 2007. National registry data demonstrates good coverage of...

    Authors: Elisa J Young, Sepehr N Tabrizi, Julia ML Brotherton, John D Wark, Jan Pyman, Marion Saville, C David Wrede, Yasmin Jayasinghe, Jeffrey Tan, Dorota M Gertig, Marian Pitts and Suzanne M Garland

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2013 13:296

    Content type: Study protocol

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  5. It is not known whether children with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) have an infection risk similar to non- APL acute myeloid leukemia. The objective was to describe infectious risk in children with newly ...

    Authors: Sonia Cellot, Donna Johnston, David Dix, Marie-Chantal Ethier, Biljana Gillmeister, David Mitchell, Rochelle Yanofsky, Victor Lewis, Carol Portwine, Victoria Price, Shayna Zelcer, Mariana Silva, Lynette Bowes, Bruno Michon, Kent Stobart, Josee Brossard…

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2013 13:276

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  6. Our previous studies have suggested that the primary impact of immune cell infiltration into the normal or pre-invasive tissue component is associated with the physical destruction of epithelial capsules, whic...

    Authors: Hongyan Yuan, Yi-Hsuan Hsiao, Yiyu Zhang, Jinlian Wang, Chao Yin, Rong Shen and Yiping Su

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2013 13:258

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  7. Tumor-associated macrophages (TAM) promote malignant progression, yet the repertoire of oncogenic factors secreted by TAM has not been clearly defined. We sought to analyze which EGFR- and STAT3-activating fac...

    Authors: Philip Vlaicu, Philipp Mertins, Thomas Mayr, Peter Widschwendter, Beyhan Ataseven, Bernhard Högel, Wolfgang Eiermann, Pjotr Knyazev and Axel Ullrich

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2013 13:197

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  8. Several human cancers are known to be associated with inflammation and/or viral infections. However, the influence of tumour-related inflammation on viral uptake is largely unknown. In this study we used oesop...

    Authors: Georgia Schäfer, Siti Kabanda, Beverly van Rooyen, Martina Bergant Marušič, Lawrence Banks and M Iqbal Parker

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2013 13:185

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  10. High-grade gliomas including glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) are among the most malignant and aggressive of tumors, and have a very poor prognosis despite a temozolomide-based intensive treatment. Therefore, a n...

    Authors: Yasuto Akiyama, Chie Oshita, Akiko Kume, Akira Iizuka, Haruo Miyata, Masaru Komiyama, Tadashi Ashizawa, Mika Yagoto, Yoshiaki Abe, Koichi Mitsuya, Reiko Watanabe, Takashi Sugino, Ken Yamaguchi and Yoko Nakasu

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2012 12:623

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  11. Asbestos is the main cause of MPM in industrialized countries. Even since asbestos is banned in most developed countries, the peak wave of MPM incidence is anticipated for the next years due to the long latenc...

    Authors: Ulf Petrausch, Petra C Schuberth, Christian Hagedorn, Alex Soltermann, Sandra Tomaszek, Rolf Stahel, Walter Weder and Christoph Renner

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2012 12:615

    Content type: Study protocol

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  12. Identification of new cancer antigens is necessary for the efficient diagnosis and immunotherapy. A variety of tumor antigens have been identified by several methodologies. Among those antigens, cancer/testis ...

    Authors: Tadashi Hanafusa, Ali Eldib Ali Mohamed, Shohei Domae, Eiichi Nakayama and Toshiro Ono

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2012 12:520

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  13. One-third of breast cancers display amplifications of the ERBB2 gene encoding the HER2 kinase receptor. Trastuzumab, a humanized antibody directed against an epitope on subdomain IV of the extracellular domain of...

    Authors: Ceyhan Ceran, Murat Cokol, Sultan Cingoz, Ipek Tasan, Mehmet Ozturk and Tamer Yagci

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2012 12:450

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  14. Hepatoblastoma (HB) is the most common primary, malignant pediatric liver tumor in children. The treatment results for affected children have markedly improved in recent decades. However, the prognosis for hig...

    Authors: Shu-Cheng Zhang, Wei-Lin Wang, Wei-Song Cai, Kai-Lei Jiang and Zheng-Wei Yuan

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2012 12:427

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  15. The role of Th17 cells in colorectal tumorigenesis and development still remains unclear, despite the fact that it has been established in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases.

    Authors: Jiansheng Wang, Kaiyu Xu, Jing Wu, Chenghua Luo, Yuchen Li, Xuebin Wu, Hong Gao, Guosheng Feng and Bao-Zhu Yuan

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2012 12:418

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  16. Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) and Philadelphia chromosome-positive (Ph+) acute lymphatic leukemia (Ph + ALL) are caused by the t(9;22), which fuses BCR to ABL resulting in deregulated ABL-tyrosine kinase act...

    Authors: Afsar Ali Mian, Anna Metodieva, Susanne Badura, Mamduh Khateb, Nili Ruimi, Yousef Najajreh, Oliver Gerhard Ottmann, Jamal Mahajna and Martin Ruthardt

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2012 12:411

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  17. Abnormal NF-κB2 activation has been implicated in the pathogenesis of multiple myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells. However, a causal role for aberrant NF-κB2 signaling in the development of plasma cell tumors h...

    Authors: Brian A McCarthy, Liqun Yang, Jane Ding, Mingqiang Ren, William King, Mohammed ElSalanty, Ibrahim Zakhary, Mohamed Sharawy, Hongjuan Cui and Han-Fei Ding

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2012 12:203

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  18. WNT7a, a member of the Wnt ligand family implicated in several developmental processes, has also been reported to be dysregulated in some types of tumors; however, its function and implication in oncogenesis i...

    Authors: Alejandra B Ochoa-Hernández, Moisés Ramos-Solano, Ivan D Meza-Canales, Beatriz García-Castro, Mónica A Rosales-Reynoso, Judith A Rosales-Aviña, Esperanza Barrera-Chairez, Pablo C Ortíz-Lazareno, Georgina Hernández-Flores, Alejandro Bravo-Cuellar, Luis F Jave-Suarez, Patricio Barros-Núñez and Adriana Aguilar-Lemarroy

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2012 12:60

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  19. Molecular alterations occur frequently in T-ALL and the potential impact of those abnormalities on outcome is still controversial. The current study aimed to test whether NOTCH1 mutations and additional molecular...

    Authors: Marcela Braga Mansur, Rocio Hassan, Thayana C Barbosa, Alessandra Splendore, Patricia Y Jotta, José Andrés Yunes, Joseph L Wiemels and Maria S Pombo-de-Oliveira

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2012 12:9

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  20. Oncolytic viral therapy represents an alternative therapeutic strategy for the treatment of cancer. We previously described GLV-1h68, a modified Vaccinia Virus with exclusive tropism for tumor cells, and we ob...

    Authors: Maria Libera Ascierto, Andrea Worschech, Zhiya Yu, Sharon Adams, Jennifer Reinboth, Nanhai G Chen, Zoltan Pos, Rahul Roychoudhuri, Giovanni Di Pasquale, Davide Bedognetti, Lorenzo Uccellini, Fabio Rossano, Paolo A Ascierto, David F Stroncek, Nicholas P Restifo, Ena Wang…

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:451

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  22. Cervical cancer continues to be an important worldwide health problem for women. Up to 35% of patients who are diagnosed with and appropriately treated for cervical cancer will recur and treatment results are ...

    Authors: Emiliano Cocco, Joyce Varughese, Natalia Buza, Stefania Bellone, Michelle Glasgow, Marta Bellone, Paola Todeschini, Luisa Carrara, Dan-Arin Silasi, Masoud Azodi, Peter E Schwartz, Thomas J Rutherford, Sergio Pecorelli, Charles J Lockwood and Alessandro D Santin

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:263

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  23. Recent advances in lung cancer biology presuppose its inflammatory origin. In this regard, LTB-4 and IL-8 are recognized to play a crucial role in neutrophil recruitment into airways during lung cancer.

    Authors: Giovanna E Carpagnano, Grazia P Palladino, Donato Lacedonia, Anna Koutelou, Silvio Orlando and Maria P Foschino-Barbaro

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:226

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  25. Major histocompatibility complex class I-related chain A and B (MICA/B) are two stress-inducible ligands that bind the immunoreceptor NKG2D and play an important role in mediating the cyotoxicity of NK and T c...

    Authors: Xiulong Xu, Geetha S Rao, Veronika Groh, Thomas Spies, Paolo Gattuso, Howard L Kaufman, Janet Plate and Richard A Prinz

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:194

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  26. Double stranded RNA (dsRNA) has multiple anti-tumor mechanisms. Over the past several decades, there have been numerous attempts to utilize synthetic dsRNA to control tumor growth in animal models and clinical...

    Authors: B Leticia Rodriguez, Zhen Yu, Woon-Gye Chung, Richard Weiss and Zhengrong Cui

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:110

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  27. In principle, the elimination of malignancies by oncolytic virotherapy could proceed by different mechanisms - e.g. tumor cell specific oncolysis, destruction of the tumor vasculature or an anti-tumoral immuno...

    Authors: Stephanie Weibel, Viktoria Raab, Yong A Yu, Andrea Worschech, Ena Wang, Francesco M Marincola and Aladar A Szalay

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:68

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  28. Infection plays a role in the pathogenesis of many human malignancies. Whether prostate cancer (PCa) - an important health issue in the aging male population in the Western world - belongs to these conditions ...

    Authors: Jan Hrbacek, Michael Urban, Eva Hamsikova, Ruth Tachezy, Vaclav Eis, Marek Brabec and Jiri Heracek

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:53

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  29. The treatment of high-risk neuroblastoma patients consists of multimodal induction therapy to achieve remission followed by consolidation therapy to prevent relapses. However, the type of consolidation therapy...

    Authors: Thorsten Simon, Barbara Hero, Andreas Faldum, Rupert Handgretinger, Martin Schrappe, Thomas Klingebiel and Frank Berthold

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:21

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  30. "High risk" Human Papillomavirus strains are the causative agents of the vast majority of carcinomas of the uterine cervix. In these tumors, the physical integration of the HPV genome is a frequent, though not...

    Authors: Luisa Accardi, Maria Gabriella Donà, Anna M Mileo, Marco G Paggi, Antonio Federico, Paola Torreri, Tamara C Petrucci, Rosita Accardi, David Pim, Massimo Tommasino, Lawrence Banks, Barbara Chirullo and Colomba Giorgi

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:17

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  31. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) have garnered an extraordinary amount of interest in cancer research due to their role in tumor progression. By activating the production of several biological factors, TLRs induce t...

    Authors: Salomé González-Reyes, Laura Marín, Lucía González, Luis O González, José M del Casar, Maria L Lamelas, José M González-Quintana and Francisco J Vizoso

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:665

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  32. Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is a major risk factor for the development of nearly all cases of cervical cancer worldwide. The presence of HPV DNA in cases of esophageal squamous-cell carcinoma (ESCC) h...

    Authors: Donghong Zhang, Qingying Zhang, Li Zhou, Leijun Huo, Yi Zhang, Zhongying Shen and Yi Zhu

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:650

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  33. Staging of B-cell non Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) routinely involves bone marrow (BM) examination by trephine biopsy (BM-TB). The evidence of disease in the BM-TB results in a clinical stage IV classification aff...

    Authors: Patrizia Mancuso, Angelica Calleri, Pierluigi Antoniotti, Jessica Quarna, Giancarlo Pruneri and Francesco Bertolini

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:644

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  34. The validation of novel prognostic indicators is of greatest interest for the management of esophageal adenocarcinoma (Barrett's cancer), particularly for non-metastasized (stage I-IIA) disease. The prognostic...

    Authors: Sandra Rauser, Rupert Langer, Sebastian Tschernitz, Peter Gais, Uta Jütting, Marcus Feith, Heinz Höfler and Axel Walch

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:608

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  36. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a type of neoplasm that is highly prevalent in East Asia and Africa with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), genetic, and dietary factors implicated as possible aetiologic factors. Prev...

    Authors: Michelle MS Chew, Sook-Yee Gan, Alan SB Khoo and Eng-Lai Tan

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:574

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  37. Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC) are a heterogeneous population of immature cells that accumulates in tumour-bearing hosts. These cells are induced by tumour-derived factors (e.g. prostaglandins) and ha...

    Authors: Joris D Veltman, Margaretha EH Lambers, Menno van Nimwegen, Rudi W Hendriks, Henk C Hoogsteden, Joachim GJV Aerts and Joost PJJ Hegmans

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:464

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  38. The role of TNFα in cancer is complex with both pro-tumourigenic and anti-tumourigenic roles proposed. We hypothesised that anatomical microlocalisation is critical for its function.

    Authors: Chandra M Ohri, Aarti Shikotra, Ruth H Green, David A Waller and Peter Bradding

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:323

    Content type: Research article

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