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ReviewNature immunology2019

Mechanisms of immunotherapy resistance: lessons from glioblastoma.

Christopher M Jackson, John Choi, Michael Lim

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Review in Nature immunology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 452 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
452citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
46.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

452 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 729 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Immunotherapy for Glioma: A compartmental framework for resistance and rational combination design.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2026
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392 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Christopher M JacksonDepartment of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5958-2004
John ChoiDepartment of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Michael LimDepartment of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. mlim3@jhmi.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0523-3076
Johns Hopkins University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glioblastoma (GBM) is the deadliest form of brain cancer, with a median survival of less than 2 years despite surgical resection, radiation, and chemotherapy. GBM's rapid progression, resistance to therapy, and inexorable recurrence have been attributed to several factors, including its rapid growth rate, its molecular heterogeneity, its propensity to infiltrate vital brain structures, the regenerative capacity of treatment-resistant cancer stem cells, and challenges in achieving high concentrations of chemotherapeutic agents in the central nervous system. Escape from immunosurveillance is increasingly recognized as a landmark event in cancer biology. Translation of this framework to clinical oncology has positioned immunotherapy as a pillar of cancer treatment. Amid the bourgeoning successes of cancer immunotherapy, GBM has emerged as a model of resistance to immunotherapy. Here we review the mechanisms of immunotherapy resistance in GBM and discuss how insights into GBM-immune system interactions might inform the next generation of immunotherapeutics for GBM and other resistant pathologies.

Indexed as

Brain NeoplasmsCentral Nervous SystemDrug Resistance, NeoplasmGlioblastomaHumansImmunotherapyTumor Escape

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PMID31358997
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