ReviewBioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy2019
Oncolytic Viruses: Priming Time for Cancer Immunotherapy.
Review in BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 87 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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87 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 131 citations in OpenAlex.
- Heating the Cold: Overcoming Immunotherapy Resistance in Microsatellite-Stable Colorectal Cancer: A Systematic Review.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Pooled it
- Clinical activity of single-dose systemic oncolytic VSV virotherapy in patients with relapsed refractory T-cell lymphoma.Blood advances · 2022Trial
- Oncolytic virus therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma: A bibliometric analysis of research landscapes, hotspots, and clinical transformation trends from 2000 to mid-2025.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2026Review
- Olvi-Vec oncolytic immunotherapy and reversal of platinum resistance in ovarian cancer.Gynecologic oncology reports · 2026Article
- Advances in oncolytic virus delivery strategies and challenges in clinical translation.Materials today. Bio · 2026Review
- Phase I Study of Oncolytic Virus VV1 as Monotherapy or in Combination with Avelumab in Patients with Relapsed Refractory Solid Tumors.Cancer research communications · 2026Article
- Leveraging multimodal cancer immunotherapy to amplify the efficacy of oncolytic viruses.Experimental hematology & oncology · 2026Review
- Cracking the shield: oncolytic viruses versus the tumor-immune fortress.Cancer cell international · 2026Review
- A review of organoid-immune co-culture platforms to model the immune microenvironment of hepatocellular carcinoma and guide immunotherapy.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Review
- Oncolytic Virotherapy and Immunogenic Cell Death: Mechanisms, Platforms, and Clinical Translation.Viruses · 2026Review
- Next generation approaches in cancer immunotherapy targeting mechanisms beyond PD1 and PDL1.Discover oncology · 2026Review
- Oncolytic viruses: advanced strategies in cancer therapy.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026Review
- Filamentous Phage for Therapeutic Applications in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Brain Metastases: Recent Prospect.International journal of nanomedicine · 2026Review
- Oncolytic virus VT1092M synergizes with immune checkpoint inhibitors against intraperitoneal metastases of colorectal cancer.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- Oncolytic measles virotherapy encoding the neutrophil-activating protein is effective in synovial sarcoma.Molecular therapy. Oncology · 2025Article
- T cell exhaustion in poorly immunogenic HCC is partially rescued by checkpoint blockade but suppressed by oncolytic virotherapy.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2025Article
- Fusing Oncolytic Virotherapy With Cancer Immunotherapy to Treat Therapy-Resistant Melanoma.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2025Article
- Exploiting viral infection/vaccination to focus high-affinity T cell populations into tumors using oncolytic viro-immunotherapy.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2025Article
- Empowering hypoxia to convert cold tumors into hot tumors for breast cancer immunotherapy.Cell death discovery · 2025Review
- Oncolytic immunovirotherapy: finding the tumor antigen needle in the antiviral haystack.Immunotherapy · 2025Review
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Abstract
New immuno-oncology therapies are improving cancer treatments beyond the former standard of care, as evidenced by the recent and continuing clinical approvals for immunotherapies in a broad range of indications. However, a majority of patients (particularly those with immunologically cold tumors) still do not benefit, highlighting the need for rational combination approaches. Oncolytic viruses (OV) both directly kill tumor cells and inflame the tumor microenvironment. While OV spread can be limited by the generation of antiviral immune responses, the initial local tumor cell killing can reverse the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment, resulting in more effective release of tumor-associated antigens (TAAs), cross-presentation, and antitumoral effector T cell recruitment. Moreover, many OVs can be engineered to express immunomodulatory genes. Rational combination approaches to cancer immunotherapy include the use of OVs in combination with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) or adoptive T cell therapy (ACT) to promote sustained antitumoral immune responses. OV combinations have additive or synergistic efficacy in preclinical tumor models with ICIs or ACT. Several preclinical studies have confirmed systemic reactivation and proliferation of adoptively transferred antitumoral T cells in conjunction with oncolytic OVs (expressing cytokines or TAAs) resulting from the specific tumor cell killing and immunostimulation of the tumor microenvironment which leads to increased tumor trafficking, activity, and survival. Recent clinical trials combining OVs with ICIs have shown additive effects in melanoma. Additional clinical data in an expanded range of patient indications are eagerly awaited. The relative timings of OV and ICI combination remains under-studied and is an area for continued exploration. Studies systematically exploring the effects of systemic ICIs prior to, concomitantly with, or following OV therapy will aid in the future design of clinical trials to enhance efficacy and increase patient response rates.
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