ReviewClinical and translational medicine2018
Oncolytic viruses and checkpoint inhibitors: combination therapy in clinical trials.
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90 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 135 citations in OpenAlex.
- The efficacy and safety assessment of oncolytic virotherapies in the treatment of advanced melanoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Virology journal · 2023Pooled it
- Overcoming melanoma drug resistance: Mechanisms and clinical progress of oncolytic viruses combined with immune checkpoint inhibitors (Review).Oncology reports · 2026Review
- Integrative Proteomic Analysis Reveals VMG Oncolytic Virus-Induced Molecular Reprogramming in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma.Research square · 2026Article
- Tumor Cells as Architects of Immune Refractoriness: Dismantling Intrinsic Programs of Tumor Cells for Clinical Translation.Immune network · 2026Review
- Immune Checkpoint Blockade and Emerging Combination Platforms in Breast Cancer: A Narrative Review.Breast cancer (Dove Medical Press) · 2026Review
- Oncolytic virus VT1092M synergizes with immune checkpoint inhibitors against intraperitoneal metastases of colorectal cancer.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- A new strategy for melanoma treatment: an investigation of the clinical value of the combination of immune checkpoint inhibitors and oncolytic viruses.Cancer cell international · 2025Review
- Efficacy, Safety and Predictive Biomarkers of Oncolytic Virus Therapy in Solid Tumors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Vaccines · 2025Review
- Transforming cancer immunotherapy: integration of distinct immune-based approaches as redefined dual immunotherapy with potential third-sensitizer.Experimental hematology & oncology · 2025Review
- In vivo neutrophils hitchhiking for tumor targeting and microenvironment regulation boosts oncolytic virus therapy.Cell reports. Medicine · 2025Article
- cJun-N-terminal kinase activity and mitosis perturbation drive the 2-methoxyestradiol-mediated enhancement of viral oncolysis by Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease Virus-Tel Aviv University.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Immune checkpoint inhibitors in cancer therapy: what lies beyond monoclonal antibodies?Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) · 2025Review
- Reprogramming cancer immunity with next-generation combination therapies.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025Review
- Viral warfare: unleashing engineered oncolytic viruses to outsmart cancer's defenses.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors Combined with Oncolytic Virotherapy: Synergy, Heterogeneity, and Safety in Cancer Treatment.Oncology research · 2025Review
- A review of immunotherapy for bone tumors.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Unmasking the potential: mechanisms of neuroinflammatory modulation by oncolytic viruses in glioblastoma.Exploration of targeted anti-tumor therapy · 2025Review
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- Uveal Melanoma: Comprehensive Review of Its Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Future Perspectives.Biomedicines · 2024Review
- Neuroblastoma-A Review of Combination Immunotherapy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
30 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Advances in the understanding of cancer immunotherapy and the development of multiple checkpoint inhibitors have dramatically changed the current landscape of cancer treatment. Recent large-scale phase III trials (e.g. PHOCUS, OPTiM) are establishing use of oncolytic viruses as another tool in the cancer therapeutics armamentarium. These viruses do not simply lyse cells to achieve their cancer-killing effects, but also cause dramatic changes in the tumor immune microenvironment. This review will highlight the major vector platforms that are currently in development (including adenoviruses, reoviruses, vaccinia viruses, herpesviruses, and coxsackieviruses) and how they are combined with checkpoint inhibitors. These vectors employ a variety of engineered capsid modifications to enhance infectivity, genome deletions or promoter elements to confer selective replication, and encode a variety of transgenes to enhance anti-tumor or immunogenic effects. Pre-clinical and clinical data have shown that oncolytic vectors can induce anti-tumor immunity and markedly increase immune cell infiltration (including cytotoxic CD8
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