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ReviewNanotheranostics2017

Prediction of Anti-cancer Nanotherapy Efficacy by Imaging.

Miles A Miller, Sean Arlauckas, Ralph Weissleder

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Review in Nanotheranostics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
39citing papers in PubMed
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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

39 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Evaluation of CoFeInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  3. Nanotheranostics: A Cutting-edge Technology for Cancer Management.Current pharmaceutical biotechnology · 2025
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  8. Deciphering albumin-directed drug delivery by imaging.Advanced drug delivery reviews · 2022
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  9. Multiplexed imaging in oncology.Nature biomedical engineering · 2022
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  20. The Therapeutic Potential of Nanobodies.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2020
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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

3 authors.

Miles A MillerCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA.
Sean ArlauckasCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA.
Ralph WeisslederCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA.

Funding

Training Grant in Molecular Imaging Research (MGH/HMS)T32CA079443 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI WEISSLEDER, MD, PHD, RALPH · 2000 to 2025
$10.1M
Imaging of nanotherapeutic drug actionU01CA206997 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI WEISSLEDER, MD, PHD, RALPH · 2017 to 2021
$2.9M
Imaging tumor associated macrophage (TAM) functionR01CA206890 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI PITTET, MIKAEL, WEISSLEDER, MD, PHD, RALPH · 2017 to 2021
$1.9M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA206890NCI NIH HHS T32 CA079443NCI NIH HHS U01 CA206997
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anticancer nanotherapeutics have shown mixed results in clinical trials, raising the questions of whether imaging should be used to i) identify patients with a higher likelihood of nanoparticle accumulation, ii) assess nanotherapeutic efficacy before traditional measures show response, and iii) guide adjuvant treatments to enhance therapeutic nanoparticle (TNP) delivery. Here we review the use of a clinically approved MRI nanoparticle (ferumoxytol, FMX) to predict TNP delivery and efficacy. It is becoming increasingly apparent that nanoparticles used for imaging, despite clearly distinct physicochemical properties, often co-localize with TNP in tumors. This evidence offers the possibility of using FMX as a generic "companion diagnostic" nanoparticle for multiple TNP formulations, thus potentially allowing many of the complex regulatory and cost challenges of other approaches to be avoided.

Indexed as

dextran-coated iron oxide nanoparticleenhanced permeability and retention effectmagnetic resonance imagingnanomedicinepersonalized medicinetumor associated macrophage.

Identifiers

PMID29071194
PMCPMC5646731

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