ReviewNature reviews. Cancer2020
The evolving translational potential of small extracellular vesicles in cancer.
Review in Nature reviews. Cancer, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 296 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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296 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Prognostic value of extracellular vesicles in colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2025Pooled it
- Tumor Extracellular Vesicles Aggravate Mitochondrial Damage in Myocardial Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Pooled it
- Ad-SGE-DKK3 Gene Therapy Overcomes Resistance to Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Pleural Mesothelioma.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2025Trial
- Extracellular Vesicles May Predict Response to Radioembolization and Sorafenib Treatment in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma: An Exploratory Analysis from the SORAMIC Trial.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2022Trial
- Analysis of exosomal mRNA profile in cancer tissue from patients with colorectal cancer.Biomedical reports · 2026Article
- Liquid biopsy in bladder cancer: towards precision oncology.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Review
- Scalable and Controlled Production of Microalgae-derived Extracellular Vesicles Using a Differential Tangential Flow Filtration Protocol.Journal of extracellular biology · 2026Article
- Multiplexed Profiling of Individual Extracellular Vesicles Reveals Lung Cancer-Associated Protein Signatures.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- iEVIP: a dual-inspired intelligent platform for smart response extracellular vesicle isolation and single-vesicle profiling.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- The liver-bone axis: an emerging player in disease pathogenesis and therapeutic intervention.Science China. Life sciences · 2026Review
- Tumor extracellular vesicle RNA profiling predicts treatment response in pediatric diffuse midline glioma.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Exosome-derived LncRNAs in bone remodeling: recent advances and future directions for bone disease therapy.Stem cell research & therapy · 2026Review
- Recent advances in nanomaterial-based strategies for chronic pain alleviation.Materials today. Bio · 2026Review
- Impact of Isolation Techniques on the Content of Small Extracellular Vesicles.Journal of extracellular vesicles · 2026Article
- Small Extracellular Vesicles (sEV) in Surgical Drain Fluids of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients Carry Luminal and Surface DNA.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Multifactor authentication in extracellular vesicle analysis: methods and approaches to address the heterogeneity problem.Nature methods · 2026Review
- Simple and rapid profiling of tumor EVs for differential diagnosis of NSCLC via orthogonal barcode-driven CRISPR/Cas12a.Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2026Article
- Ultrasensitive electrochemical dipstick lateral flow immunoassay for extracellular vesicle quantification using starch-iodine functionalized gold nanoparticles.Mikrochimica acta · 2026Article
- Early-stage multi-cancer detection through a plasma extracellular vesicle protein signature.Cell reports. Medicine · 2026Article
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Abstract
Cancer-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) are regarded as having promising potential to be used as therapeutics and disease biomarkers. Mechanistically, EVs have been shown to function in most, if not all, steps of cancer progression. Cancer EVs, including small EVs (sEVs), contain unique biomolecular cargo, consisting of protein, nucleic acid and lipids. Through progress in the identification of this specific cargo, cancer biomarkers have been identified and developed, opening up novel and interesting opportunities for cancer diagnosis and prognosis. Intriguingly, we still lack a comprehensive understanding of the cancer-specific pathways that govern EV biogenesis in cancer cells. Filling this knowledge gap will rapidly improve cancer EV biomarkers, as it will also allow discrimination of the procancer and anticancer actions of those EVs. Even more promising is uncovering therapeutically targetable, tumour-specific EV pathways and content, which will generate novel classes of cancer therapies. This Review highlights the progress the cancer sEV field has made in the areas of biomarker discovery and validation as well as sEV-based therapeutics, highlights the challenges we are facing and identifies gaps in our knowledge, which currently prevent us from developing the full potential of sEVs in cancer diagnostic and therapy.
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