Module #12 Assignment PubMed Central article about risk and benefit of tumor vaccines
Motivation:
This assignment addresses course outcome (C.O. #2 Explain the immune system, including defenses of the host and immune diseases.) and module learning objective # 10 Discuss the risks and benefits of tumor vaccines. It also addresses digital literacy by using a professional search engine. It also familiarizes you as allied health professionals to find peer-reviewed scientific information, so that you can learn more about health topics and be an advocate for patients in regard to health topics.
Instruction:
You are supposed to find a research article on PubMed Central about tumor vaccines that contains information about some risk and some benefit of tumor vaccines. Then you upload (as file or photo of handwritten notes or type in the text field) in the assignment the following information:
1) the name of the article, 2) the name of the author(s), 3) the name of the journal, 4) volume and page number, 5) year of publication, 6) one benefit, and 7) one risk.
· Open internet browser and type in as search term “PubMed Central”
· Click the result PubMed Central – NIH . (The link is https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ ).
· A website of PubMed Central opens. Type in the search bar the following text including parentheses and all the words: tumor vaccines[title] AND benefit[title/abstract] AND risk[title/abstract]
· If you can’t find an article with these terms then you can use the following terms: cancer vaccines[title] AND benefit[title/abstract] AND risk[title/abstract]
· You noticed the word AND is capitalized on purpose to combine search terms. Square parenthesis [] instead of round parenthesis () is used.
· This search resulted in 44 articles, but not all are about tumor vaccines; article number 9 was the article I am using as an example for this assignment. You need to pick a different article than the article given as an example.
· You need to open or download the article and find the information about the benefit and the risk listed within the article (Your browser or PDF reader may have a search function. You can enter as a search term “benefit” or “risk” and find what the article says about that.
Example
1) the name of the article:
Comparative Efficacy of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors and Therapeutic Vaccines in Solid Tumors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
2) the name of the author(s): Babiker R, Wali AF, El-Tanani M, Rabbani SA, Rangraze I, Satyam SM, Patni MA, El-Tanani Y.
3) the name of the journal: Vaccines (Basel).
4) volume and page number: 13(4):423.
5) year of publication: 2025
6) one benefit: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI)s showed a statistically significant overall survival (OS) benefit
7) one risk: Variations in gut flora that impact host immunity could play a role in the risk of these events
Evaluation rubric or grading rubric
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name of the article |
Correct :14.3 points |
Incorrect : 7 points |
Missing : 0 points |
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name of the author(s) |
Correct :14.3 points |
Incorrect : 7 points |
Missing : 0 points |
|
name of the journal |
Correct :14.3 points |
Incorrect : 7 points |
Missing : 0 points |
|
volume and page number |
Correct :14.3 points |
Incorrect : 7 points |
Missing : 0 points |
|
year of publication |
Correct :14.3 points |
Incorrect : 7 points |
Missing : 0 points |
|
one benefit |
Correct :14.3 points |
Incorrect : 7 points |
Missing : 0 points |
|
one risk |
Correct :14.3 points |
Incorrect : 7 points |
Missing : 0 points |
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