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Safe and effective administration of T-VEC in a patient with heart transplantation and recurrent locally advanced melanoma

Overview of attention for article published in Journal for Immunotherapy of Cancer, June 2017
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Title
Safe and effective administration of T-VEC in a patient with heart transplantation and recurrent locally advanced melanoma
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Journal for Immunotherapy of Cancer, June 2017
DOI 10.1186/s40425-017-0250-5
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Gustavo Schvartsman, Kristen Perez, Jill E. Flynn, Jeffrey N. Myers, Hussein Tawbi

Abstract

Immunotherapy plays a key role in the treatment of metastatic melanoma. Patients with autoimmune conditions and/or on immunosuppressive therapy due to orthotropic transplants, however, are systematically excluded from clinical trials. Talimogene laherparepvec (T-VEC) is the first oncolytic virus to be approved by the FDA for cancer therapy. To our knowledge, this is the first report of T-VEC being administered in the setting of an organ transplant recipient. Here we present the case of a patient with recurrent locally advanced cutaneous melanoma receiving salvage T-VEC therapy in the setting of orthotropic heart transplantation. After 5 cycles of therapy, no evidence of graft rejection has been observed to date, and the patient achieved a complete remission, and is currently off therapy. This case advocates for further investigation on the safety and efficacy of immunotherapeutic approaches, such as T-VEC, in solid organ transplant recipients.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 49 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 12 24%
Researcher 6 12%
Student > Master 5 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 6%
Other 2 4%
Other 7 14%
Unknown 14 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 16 33%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 6%
Mathematics 2 4%
Other 5 10%
Unknown 17 35%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 July 2017.
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#3,690,424
of 25,382,440 outputs
Outputs from Journal for Immunotherapy of Cancer
#1,013
of 3,422 outputs
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#64,619
of 330,053 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal for Immunotherapy of Cancer
#11
of 21 outputs
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