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ReviewClinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research2019

Immunotherapy for Glioblastoma: Adoptive T-cell Strategies.

Bryan D Choi, Marcela V Maus, Carl H June, John H Sampson

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Review in Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 79 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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79citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

79 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 104 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Bryan D ChoiCellular Immunotherapy Program, Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Marcela V MausCellular Immunotherapy Program, Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.ORCID 0000-0002-7578-0393
Carl H JuneCenter for Cellular Immunotherapies and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.ORCID 0000-0003-0241-3557
John H SampsonDuke Brain Tumor Immunotherapy Program, Duke University Medical Center and Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. john.sampson@duke.edu.
Massachusetts General Hospital · USDuke University · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Women's Cancer Research ProgramP30CA014236 · NCI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI DONNA NIEDZWIECKI · 1985 to 2026
$174.8M
Targeted Alpha-Particle Radiotheraphy of Brain Tumors with 211At-81C6 AntibodyP50CA190991 · NCI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI SAMPSON, JOHN H. · 2014 to 2023
$20.8M
Project 3: Phase-2 Trial of Oncolytic Poliovirus (PVSRIPO) combined with CCNU (lomustine) against Recurrent GlioblastomaP01CA225622 · NCI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI WEINHOLD, KENT J. · 2018 to 2022
$12.2M
Neuroscience Resident Research ProgramR25NS065743 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI CASH, SYDNEY S, WILLIAMS, ZIV · 2009 to 2023
$11.8M
Human EGFRvIII-specific BiTE for the treatment of GlioblastomaU01NS090284 · NINDS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI SAMPSON, JOHN H. · 2015 to 2019
$5.2M
Brain tumors with regulatory T-cells treated with EGFRvIII-specific T-cellsR01CA177476 · NCI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI SAMPSON, JOHN H. · 2013 to 2017
$2.3M
EGFRvIII-targeted Bispecific T cell Engagers for brain tumorsR01NS085412 · NINDS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI SAMPSON, JOHN H. · 2013 to 2017
$2.0M
Clinical Brain Tumor Development of a Cytomegalovirus-targeted Therapeutic with Vaccine pre-conditioning to Validate Novel Predictors of Vaccine EfficacyR01CA235612 · NCI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI SAMPSON, JOHN H. · 2019 to 2022
$2.0M
CCL3 as a Developmental Therapeutic to Enhance Brain Tumor TherapyR01NS099463 · NINDS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI SAMPSON, JOHN H. · 2017 to 2021
$1.7M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA225622NCI NIH HHS P30 CA014236NCI NIH HHS P50 CA190991NCI NIH HHS R01 CA177476NCI NIH HHS R01 CA235612NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS085412NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS099463NINDS NIH HHS R25 NS065743NINDS NIH HHS U01 NS090284
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glioblastoma (GBM) is a devastating disease with an extremely poor prognosis. Immunotherapy via adoptive cell transfer (ACT), especially with T cells engineered to express chimeric antigen receptors (CAR), represents a particularly promising approach. Despite the recent success of CAR T cells for blood cancers, the question remains whether this powerful anticancer therapy will ultimately work for brain tumors, and whether the primary immunologic challenges in this disease, which include antigenic heterogeneity, immune suppression, and T-cell exhaustion, can be adequately addressed. Here, we contextualize these concepts by reviewing recent developments in ACT for GBM, with a special focus on pioneering clinical trials of CAR T-cell therapy.

Indexed as

Immunotherapy, AdoptiveAnimalsBrain NeoplasmsCell- and Tissue-Based TherapyCombined Modality TherapyDisease SusceptibilityGenetic TherapyGlioblastomaHumansImmunotherapyReceptors, Antigen, T-CellReceptors, Chimeric AntigenT-LymphocytesReceptors, Antigen, T-CellReceptors, Chimeric Antigen

Identifiers

PMID30446589
PMCPMC6445734
OpenAlexW2901390118

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