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ReviewNeurosurgical review2008

Molecular strategies for the treatment of malignant glioma--genes, viruses, and vaccines.

Lee A Selznick, Mohammed F Shamji, Peter Fecci, Matthias Gromeier, Allan H Friedman, John Sampson

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In one paragraph

Review in Neurosurgical review, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
22citing papers in PubMed
4.0field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Review
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  5. Vaccine therapies in malignant glioma.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2015
    Review
  6. Article
  7. Vaccine therapies for patients with glioblastoma.Journal of neuro-oncology · 2014
    Review
  8. Gene therapy for malignant glioma.Molecular and cellular therapies · 2014
    Review
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  13. Review
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  18. Improving seroreactivity-based detection of glioma.Neoplasia (New York, N.Y.) · 2009
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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

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Lee A SelznickDivision of Neurosurgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
Mohammed F Shamji
Peter Fecci
Matthias Gromeier
Allan H Friedman
John Sampson
Duke Medical Center · USDuke University · USDuke University Hospital · US

Funding

TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENES IN HUMAN MEDULLOBLASTOMAP50NS020023 · NINDS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI BIGNER, DARELL D · 1985 to 2013
$17.3M
RNA-Based Immunotherapy Targeting Antigens Unique to Brain Tumor Stem CellsR01CA135272 · NCI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI SAMPSON, JOHN H. · 2008 to 2012
$2.3M
Clinical Brain Tumor Development of a Cytomegalovirus-targeted Therapeutic with Vaccine pre-conditioning to Validate Novel Predictors of Vaccine EfficacyR01CA235612 · NCI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI SAMPSON, JOHN H. · 2019 to 2022
$2.0M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA135272NCI NIH HHS R01 CA235612NINDS NIH HHS P50 NS020023
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The standard treatment paradigm of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy for malignant gliomas has only a modest effect on survival. It is well emphasized in the literature that despite aggressive multimodal therapy, most patients survive approximately 1 year after diagnosis, and less than 10% survive beyond 2 years. This dismal prognosis provides the impetus for ongoing investigations in search of improved therapeutics. Standard multimodal therapy has largely reached a plateau in terms of effectiveness, and there is now a growing body of literature on novel molecular approaches for the treatment of malignant gliomas. Gene therapy, oncolytic virotherapy, and immunotherapy are the major investigational approaches that have demonstrated promise in preclinical and early clinical studies. These new molecular technologies each have distinct advantages and limitations, and none has yet demonstrated a significant survival benefit in a phase II or III clinical trial. Molecular approaches may not lead to the discovery of a "magic bullet" for these aggressive tumors, but they may ultimately prove synergistic with more conventional approaches and lead to a broadening of the multimodal approach that is the current standard of care. This review will discuss the scientific background, therapeutic potential, and clinical limitations of these novel strategies with a focus on those that have made it to clinical trials.

Indexed as

Genetic TherapyImmunotherapyOncolytic VirotherapyAnimalsBrain NeoplasmsCancer VaccinesGliomaHumansCancer Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID18259789
PMCPMC3418803
OpenAlexW2077532797

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