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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2020

Current Immunotherapies for Glioblastoma Multiforme.

Boyuan Huang, Xuesong Li, Yuntao Li, Jin Zhang, Zhitao Zong, Hongbo Zhang

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 103 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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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

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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

103 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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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

6 authors.

Boyuan HuangDepartment of Neurosurgery, Beijing Electric Power Hospital, Beijing, China.
Xuesong LiDepartment of Neurosurgery, Huizhou Third People's Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Huizhou, China.
Yuntao LiDepartment of Neurosurgery, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, The National Key Clinical Specialty, The Engineering Technology Research Center of Education Ministry of China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory on Brain Function Repair and Regeneration, Guangzhou, China.
Jin ZhangDepartment of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
Zhitao ZongDepartment of Neurosurgery, Jiujiang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jiujiang, China.
Hongbo ZhangDepartment of Neurosurgery, Huizhou Third People's Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Huizhou, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and aggressive malignant tumor found in the central nervous system. Currently, standard treatments in the clinic include maximal safe surgical resection, radiation, and chemotherapy and are mostly limited by low therapeutic efficiency correlated with poor prognosis. Immunotherapy, which predominantly focuses on peptide vaccines, dendritic cell vaccines, chimeric antigen receptor T cells, checkpoint inhibitor therapy, and oncolytic virotherapy, have achieved some promising results in both preclinical and clinical trials. The future of immune therapy for GBM requires an integrated effort with rational combinations of vaccine therapy, cell therapy, and radio- and chemotherapy as well as molecule therapy targeting the tumor microenvironment.

Indexed as

ImmunotherapyAnimalsBrain NeoplasmsCancer VaccinesGlioblastomaHumansImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsImmunotherapy, AdoptiveMolecular Targeted TherapyOncolytic VirotherapyTreatment OutcomeTumor MicroenvironmentCancer VaccinesImmune Checkpoint Inhibitorscheckpoint inhibitorsglioblastoma multiformegliomaimmunotherapyvaccines

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PMID33767690
PMCPMC7986847

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