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ReviewTrends in cancer2021

Next-generation immunotherapies for brain metastatic cancers.

María López Vázquez, Wanlu Du, Nobuhiko Kanaya, Yohei Kitamura, Khalid Shah

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Review in Trends in cancer, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Immunotherapy in central nervous system tumors.International journal of surgery (London, England) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

María López VázquezCenter for Stem Cell Therapeutics and Imaging (CSTI), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Wanlu DuCenter for Stem Cell Therapeutics and Imaging (CSTI), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1085, USA.
Nobuhiko KanayaCenter for Stem Cell Therapeutics and Imaging (CSTI), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Yohei KitamuraCenter for Stem Cell Therapeutics and Imaging (CSTI), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Khalid ShahCenter for Stem Cell Therapeutics and Imaging (CSTI), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Electronic address: kshah@bwh.harvard.edu.

Funding

Fate and efficacy of targeted therapies for metastatic tumorsR01CA201148 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI SHAH, KHALID A · 2016 to 2020
$1.9M
Engineered and Encapsulated Stem Cells for Resected Brain TumorsR01NS107857 · NINDS · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI SHAH, KHALID A · 2019 to 2023
$1.9M
Understanding the epigenetic basis of human familial paragangliomaF31CA180698 · NCI · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI HER, YENG FRANSOUA · 2013 to 2015
$130k
NCI NIH HHS F31 CA180698NCI NIH HHS R01 CA201148NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS107857
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patients with extracranial tumors, like lung, breast, and skin cancers, often develop brain metastases (BM) during the course of their diseases and BM commonly represent the terminal stage of cancer progression. Recent insights in the immune biology of BM and the increasing focus of immunotherapy as a therapeutic option for cancer has prompted testing of promising biological immunotherapies, including immune cell-targeting, virotherapy, vaccines, and different cell-based therapies. Here, we review the pathobiology of BM progression and evaluate the potential of next-generation immunotherapies for BM tumors. We also provide future perspectives on the development and implementation of such therapies for brain metastatic cancer patients.

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Brain NeoplasmsOncolytic VirotherapyBrainHumansImmunotherapybrainCAR-Timmunotherapymetastasesoncolytic virusstem cells

Identifiers

PMID33722479
PMCPMC8376747

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