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ReviewFrontiers in oncology2018

Current Options and Future Directions in Immune Therapy for Glioblastoma.

John Lynes, Victoria Sanchez, Gifty Dominah, Anthony Nwankwo, Edjah Nduom

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Review in Frontiers in oncology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
20citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 11% 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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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

20 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. A Synopsis of Biomarkers in Glioblastoma: Past and Present.Current issues in molecular biology · 2024
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  12. New Approaches on Cancer Immunotherapy.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine · 2020
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  13. Biomarkers for immunotherapy for treatment of glioblastoma.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

John LynesNational Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD, United States.
Victoria SanchezNational Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD, United States.
Gifty DominahNational Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD, United States.
Anthony NwankwoNational Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD, United States.
Edjah NduomNational Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD, United States.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke · USMedStar Georgetown University Hospital · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glioblastoma is in need of innovative treatment approaches. Immune therapy for cancer refers to the use of the body's immune system to target malignant cells in the body. Such immune therapeutics have recently been very successful in treating a diverse group of cancerous lesions. As a result, many new immune therapies have gained Food and Drug Administration approval for the treatment of cancer, and there has been an explosion in the study of immune therapeutics for cancer treatment over the past few years. However, the immune suppression of glioblastoma and the unique immune microenvironment of the brain make immune therapeutics more challenging to apply to the brain than to other systemic cancers. Here, we discuss the existing barriers to successful immune therapy for glioblastoma and the ongoing development of immune therapeutics. We will discuss the discovery and classification of immune suppressive factors in the glioblastoma microenvironment; the development of vaccine-based therapies; the use of convection-enhanced delivery to introduce tumoricidal viruses into the tumor microenvironment, leading to secondary immune responses; the emerging use of adoptive cell therapy in the treatment of glioblastoma; and future frontiers, such as the use of cerebral microdialysis for immune monitoring and the use of sequencing to develop patient-specific therapeutics. Armed with a better understanding of the challenges inherent in immune therapy for glioblastoma, we may soon see more successes in immune-based clinical trials for this deadly disease.

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cell therapycheckpointglioblastomaimmunotherapysequencingvaccinationvirus

Identifiers

PMID30568917
PMCPMC6290347
OpenAlexW2902180413

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