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ReviewCancer gene therapy2017

Chimeric antigen receptors for treatment of glioblastoma: a practical review of challenges and ways to overcome them.

S Sengupta, G Mao, Z S Gokaslan, P Sampath

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Review in Cancer gene therapy, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. GD2 CAR T cells against human glioblastoma.NPJ precision oncology · 2021
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  6. Cellular immunotherapy: a clinical state-of-the-art of a new paradigm for cancer treatment.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2020
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  10. Development of a Function-Blocking Antibody Against Fibulin-3 as a Targeted Reagent for Glioblastoma.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2018
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  13. Single vs. combination immunotherapeutic strategies for glioma.Expert opinion on biological therapy · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

S SenguptaBrain Tumor Laboratory, Roger Williams Medical Center, Providence, RI, USA.
G MaoDepartment of Pathology, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, USA.
Z S GokaslanDepartment of Neurosurgery, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, USA.
P SampathBrain Tumor Laboratory, Roger Williams Medical Center, Providence, RI, USA.
Providence College · USRhode Island Hospital · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glioblastoma (GBM) is by far the most common and the most aggressive of all the primary brain malignancies. No curative therapy exists, and median life expectancy hovers at around 1 year after diagnosis, with a minute fraction surviving beyond 5 years. The difficulty in treating GBM lies in the cancer's protected niche within the blood-brain barrier and the heterogeneity of the cancer cells, which possess varying degrees of susceptibility to various common modalities of treatment. Over time, it is the tumor heterogeneity of GBM and the ability of the cancer stem cells to evolve in response treatment that renders the cancer refractory to conventional treatment. Therefore, research has increasingly focused on treatment that incorporates knowledge of GBM molecular biology to therapeutic strategies. One type of therapy that shows great promise is the area of T-cell immunotherapy to target GBM-specific tumor antigens. One attractive strategy is to use T cells that have undergone genetic modification to express a chimeric antigen receptor capable of interacting with tumor antigens. In this article, we will review chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, their advantages, drawbacks, challenges facing their use and how those challenges may be overcome.

Indexed as

Immunotherapy, AdoptiveAnimalsAntigens, NeoplasmBrain NeoplasmsCell MovementClinical Trials as TopicCytotoxicity, ImmunologicGlioblastomaHumansLymphocyte ActivationReceptors, Antigen, T-CellRecombinant Fusion ProteinsT-Cell Antigen Receptor SpecificityT-Lymphocyte SubsetsTreatment OutcomeTumor EscapeAntigens, NeoplasmReceptors, Antigen, T-CellRecombinant Fusion Proteins

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PMID27767090
OpenAlexW2538680458

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