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ReviewMedical oncology (Northwood, London, England)2018

Cell biology of glioblastoma multiforme: from basic science to diagnosis and treatment.

George S Stoyanov, Deyan Dzhenkov, Peter Ghenev, Bogomil Iliev, Yavor Enchev, Anton B Tonchev

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Review in Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

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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

54 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  2. Comprehensive analysis of the potential role of Ferroptosis-related genes in glioblastoma multiforme.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026
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  11. Cannabinoids in the treatment of glioblastoma.Pharmacological reports : PR · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

George S StoyanovDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University - Varna "Prof. Dr. Paraskev Stoyanov", Marin Drinov 55 Street, 9002, Varna, Bulgaria. georgi.geesh@gmail.com.
Deyan DzhenkovDepartment of General and Clinical Pathology, Forensic Medicine and Deontology, Division of General and Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University - Varna "Prof. Dr. Paraskev Stoyanov", Varna, Bulgaria.
Peter GhenevDepartment of General and Clinical Pathology, Forensic Medicine and Deontology, Division of General and Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University - Varna "Prof. Dr. Paraskev Stoyanov", Varna, Bulgaria.
Bogomil IlievDepartment of Neurosurgery and ENT Diseases, Division of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University - Varna "Prof. Dr. Paraskev Stoyanov", Varna, Bulgaria.
Yavor EnchevDepartment of Neurosurgery and ENT Diseases, Division of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University - Varna "Prof. Dr. Paraskev Stoyanov", Varna, Bulgaria.
Anton B TonchevDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University - Varna "Prof. Dr. Paraskev Stoyanov", Marin Drinov 55 Street, 9002, Varna, Bulgaria.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

First described in the 1800s, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), a class IV neoplasm with astrocytic differentiation, as per the revised 2016 World Health Organization classification of tumors of the central nervous system (CNS) is the most common malignant tumor of the CNS. GBM has an extremely wide set of alterations, both genetic and epigenetic, which yield a great number of mutation subgroups, some of which have an established role in independent patient survival and treatment response. All of those components not only represent a closed cycle but are also relevant to the tumor biological behavior and resistance to treatment as they form the pathobiological behavior and clinical course. The presence of different triggering mutations on the background of the presence of key mutations in the GBM stem cells (GBMsc) further separates GBM as primary arising de novo from neural stem cell precursors developing into GBMsc and secondary, by means of aggregated mutations. Some of the change in cellular biology in GBM can be observed via light microscope as they form the cellular and tissue hallmarks of the condition. Changes in genetic information, resulting in alteration, suppression and expression of genes compared to their physiological levels in healthy astrocytes lead to not only cellular, but also extracellular matrix reorganization. These changes result in a multiform number of micromorphological and purely immunological/biochemical forms. Therefore, in the twenty-first century the term multiforme, previously outcast from nomenclatures, has gained new popularity on the background of genotypic diversity in this neoplastic entry.

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Cell BiologyBrain NeoplasmsGlioblastomaHumansPrognosisCell biologyGeneticsGlioblastoma multiformeMorphologyReview

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