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ArticleOncoimmunology

Prognostic relevance of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and immune checkpoints in pediatric medulloblastoma.

Jeroen F Vermeulen, Wim Van Hecke, Elisabeth J M Adriaansen, Mieke K Jansen, Rianne G Bouma, José Villacorta Hidalgo, Paul Fisch, Roel Broekhuizen, Wim G M Spliet, Marcel Kool and 1 more

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Article in Oncoimmunology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 74 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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74citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

74 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 95 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Local delivery of interferon restores antigen presentation and sensitizes medulloblastoma to T cell killing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  14. Medulloblastoma: biology and immunotherapy.Frontiers in immunology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Jeroen F VermeulenDepartment of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Wim Van HeckeDepartment of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Elisabeth J M AdriaansenDepartment of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Mieke K JansenDepartment of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Rianne G BoumaDepartment of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
José Villacorta HidalgoInstitute of Clinical Pathology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Paul FischInstitute of Clinical Pathology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Roel BroekhuizenDepartment of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Wim G M SplietDepartment of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Marcel KoolDivision of Pediatric Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Niels BovenschenDepartment of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
University Medical Center Utrecht · NLUniversity Medical Center Freiburg · DEGerman Cancer Research Center · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pediatric medulloblastomas are the most frequently diagnosed embryonal tumors of the central nervous system. Current therapies cause severe neurological and cognitive side effects including secondary malignancies. Cellular immunotherapy might be key to improve survival and to avoid morbidity. Efficient killing of tumor cells using immunotherapy requires to overcome cancer-associated strategies to evade cytotoxic immune responses. Here, we examined the immune response and immune evasion strategies in pediatric medulloblastomas. Cytotoxic T-cells, infiltrating medulloblastomas with variable activation status, showed no correlation with overall survival of the patients. We found limited numbers of PD1

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brain cancerimmune evasionmedulloblastomaPD-1PD-L1pediatricSerpintumor-infiltrating lymphocytes

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PMID29399402
PMCPMC5790383
OpenAlexW2767966995

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