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ReviewMolecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy2018

Oncolytic Virus Combination Therapy: Killing One Bird with Two Stones.

Nikolas Tim Martin, John Cameron Bell

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Review in Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 96 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

96 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Fusing Oncolytic Virotherapy With Cancer Immunotherapy to Treat Therapy-Resistant Melanoma.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2025
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  8. Oncolytic Virotherapy in Solid Tumors: A Current Review.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2025
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  20. Molecular Circuits of Immune Sensing and Response to Oncolytic Virotherapy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Nikolas Tim MartinCentre for Innovative Cancer Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, 501 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L6, Canada.
John Cameron BellCentre for Innovative Cancer Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, 501 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L6, Canada. Electronic address: jbell@ohri.ca.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over the last 60 years an eclectic collection of microbes has been tested in a variety of pre-clinical models as anti-cancer agents. At the forefront of this research are a number of virus-based platforms that have shown exciting activity in a variety of pre-clinical models and are collectively referred to as oncolytic viruses. Our true understanding of the potential and limitations of this therapeutic modality has been substantially advanced through clinical studies carried out over the last 25 years. Perhaps not surprising, as with all other cancer therapeutics, it has become clear that current oncolytic virus therapeutics on their own are unlikely to be effective in the majority of patients. The greatest therapeutic gains will therefore be made through thoughtful combination strategies built upon an understanding of cancer biology.

Indexed as

AnimalsCombined Modality TherapyHumansImmunotherapyNeoplasmsOncolytic VirotherapyOncolytic Virusescancercombination therapyimmunotherapyoncolytic virus

Identifiers

PMID29703699
PMCPMC5986726

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