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ReviewCancer immunity2007

Focus on TILs: Prognostic significance of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes in human glioma.

Gavin P Dunn, Ian F Dunn, William T Curry

Registry-linked trialOpen access · greenAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Cancer immunity, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02372409 (A Pilot Study of Using MRI-Guided Laser Heat Ablation to Induce Disruption of the Peritumoral Blood Brain Barrier to Enhance Delivery and Efficacy of Treatment of Pediatric Brain Tumors), which is not on this map. Cited by 82 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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82citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT02372409 phase2terminatednot on this mapstarted 2015, after this paper: background citation

A Pilot Study of Using MRI-Guided Laser Heat Ablation to Induce Disruption of the Peritumoral Blood Brain Barrier to Enhance Delivery and Efficacy of Treatment of Pediatric Brain Tumors

TypeinterventionalSponsorWashington University School of MedicineRan2015 to 2023Enrolled6ConditionsGlioma, Pilocytic Astrocytoma, Anaplastic Astrocytoma, GlioblastomaArmsMRI-guided laser ablation, Doxorubicin, Etoposide, Dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI, Dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) MRI
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

82 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Tumor-embedded Immunity and TRM Cell Functions in Cancer.Mini reviews in medicinal chemistry · 2026
    Review
  4. New insights on anti-tumor immunity of CD8Journal of translational medicine · 2025
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  8. Advances in NK cell therapy for brain tumors.NPJ precision oncology · 2023
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  11. PD-L1 and tumor-infiltrating CD8Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023
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  20. High Expression of the Component 3a Receptor 1 (C3AR1) Gene in Stomach Adenocarcinomas Infers a Poor Prognosis and High Immune-Infiltration Levels.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2021
    Article

22 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Gavin P DunnDepartment of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA. gpdunn@partners.org
Ian F Dunn
William T Curry
Harvard University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Significant work in animal models combined with compelling studies in human patients together have begun to provide a higher resolution picture of how the immune system regulates cancer development. Currently, this immune system-tumor interaction is represented by the concept of cancer immunoediting, which emphasizes that immunity may subserve either classical cancer immunosurveillance functions or promote the eventual outgrowth of immunoevasive cancer cells. One important line of evidence supporting an immunosurveillance process in humans has been the finding that the presence of distinct profiles of TILs may be correlated with improved clinical outcomes in a subset of human cancers. However, the contribution of TILs to the natural history of gliomas is less clear. Moreover, understanding the relationship between TILs and cancers of the brain is particularly challenging because our understanding of how immune responses develop in the central nervous systems is still evolving. In this review, we will first provide an overview of three important themes in the central nervous system anti-tumor immunity--i.e., antigen expression, how antigen may be presented, and lymphocyte trafficking--and subsequently discuss the extant work on TILs in glioma.

Indexed as

Colorectal NeoplasmsHistocompatibility Antigens Class IHumansLymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingMicrosatellite InstabilityPrognosisSurvival AnalysisHistocompatibility Antigens Class I

Identifiers

PMID17691714
PMCPMC2935751
OpenAlexW81833560

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