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Hence, strategies must be developed to make cancer immunotherapy affordable and to improve the cost-benefit ratio. In this review, we discuss the following strategies: 1) to leverage the antigenicity of “cold tumors” with affordable reagents, 2) to use microbiome-based products as markers or therapeutics, 3) to apply measures that make adoptive cell therapy (ACT) cheaper, e.g., the use of off-the-shelf products, 4) to use immunotherapies that offer cheaper platforms, such as RNA- or peptide-based vaccines and vaccines that use shared or common antigens instead of highly personal antigens, 5) to use a small set of predictive biomarkers instead of the “sequence everything” approach, and 6) to explore affordable immunohistochemistry markers that may direct individual therapies.</jats:p>","journal":"Frontiers in Immunology","year":2023,"id":606975,"datarank":0.6414999178524083,"base_score":4.276666119016055,"endowment":4.276666119016055,"self_citation_contribution":0.6414999178524083,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.6414999178524083,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":71,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":862108,"name":"Jan Dörrie","orcid":"0000-0002-3478-0741","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":215297,"name":"Gerold Schuler","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1558394,"name":"Beatrice Schuler-Thurner","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1558395,"name":"Husam Sallam","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":464656,"name":"Shiri Klein","orcid":null,"position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":463728,"name":"Galit Eisenberg","orcid":"0000-0002-5459-222X","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":464657,"name":"Shoshana Frankenburg","orcid":null,"position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":463731,"name":"Michal Lotem","orcid":"0000-0003-1703-8008","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1558396,"name":"Areej Khatib","orcid":null,"position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":116902,"name":"Niels Schaft","orcid":"0000-0001-8236-9298","position":0,"is_corresponding":false}],"reference_count":0,"raw_metadata":{"has_enrichment":true,"resolved":true,"title":"The future of affordable cancer immunotherapy","abstract":"<jats:p>The treatment of cancer was revolutionized within the last two decades by utilizing the mechanism of the immune system against malignant tissue in so-called cancer immunotherapy. 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