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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Targeted immune therapy of ovarian cancer

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Abstract

Clinical outcomes, such as recurrence-free survival and overall survival, in ovarian cancer are quite variable, independent of common characteristics such as stage, response to therapy, and grade. This disparity in outcomes warrants further exploration and therapeutic targeting into the interaction between the tumor and host. One compelling host characteristic that contributes both to the initiation and progression of ovarian cancer is the immune system. Hundreds of studies have confirmed a prominent role for the immune system in modifying the clinical course of the disease. Recent studies also show that anti-tumor immunity is often negated by immune regulatory cells present in the tumor microenvironment. Regulatory immune cells also directly enhance the pathogenesis through the release of various cytokines and chemokines, which together form an integrated pathological network. Thus, in the future, research into immunotherapy targeting ovarian cancer will probably become increasingly focused on combination approaches that simultaneously augment immunity while preventing local immune suppression. In this article, we summarize important immunological targets that influence ovarian cancer outcome as well as include an update on newer immunotherapeutic strategies.

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This work is supported by P50-CA136393 (KLK), a grant from the Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Research and support from the Mayo Graduate School (PL). The authors gratefully acknowledge the expert editorial assistance of Shaundia White of the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute of Florida.

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    Keith L. Knutson, Purushottam Lamichhane & Claudia Preston

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This article has been retracted at the request of the authors and in agreement with the Editors in Chief. The article contains large portions of text that have been duplicated from the articles:

1. Immunity and immune suppression in human ovarian cancer Claudia C Preston, Ellen L Goode, Lynn C Hartmann, Kimberly R Kalli, and Keith L Knutson Immunotherapy. 2011 Apr. 3(4): 539–556, DOI 10.2217/imt.11.20

2. The Immune System in the Pathogenesis of Ovarian Cancer Bridget Charbonneau, Ellen L. Goode, Kimberly R. Kalli, Keith L. Knutson, and Melissa S. DeRycke Crit Rev Immunol. 2013; 33(2): 137–164, DOI: 10.1615/CritRevImmunol.2013006813

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Knutson, K.L., Karyampudi, L., Lamichhane, P. et al. RETRACTED ARTICLE: Targeted immune therapy of ovarian cancer. Cancer Metastasis Rev 34, 53–74 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10555-014-9540-2

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