ReviewViruses2021
Oncolytic Viruses for Malignant Glioma: On the Verge of Success?
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- The effect of oncolytic virotherapy on pediatric brain tumor- a systematic review.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2025Pooled it
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- Oncolytic Herpes Simplex Virus for Glioblastoma: Molecular Engineering, Tumor Microenvironment Barriers, and Clinical Translation.Current issues in molecular biology · 2026Review
- Humanized Murine Glioblastoma Models for Evaluation of Coxsackievirus Oncolytic Therapy.Cancers · 2026Article
- Oncolytic Viruses in Glioblastoma: Clinical Progress, Mechanistic Insights, and Future Therapeutic Directions.Cancers · 2025Review
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- An oncolytic herpes simplex virus armed with IL-12 for treatment of preclinical glioblastoma.Molecular therapy. Oncology · 2025Article
- Advances in Cellular Immune Theranostic Approaches for Glioblastoma: Current Trends and Future Directions.Cancer innovation · 2025Review
- CD70 CAR-T cells empowered by TS-2021 through ex vivo transduction show potent antitumor efficacy against glioblastoma.Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2025Article
- Optimizing Oncolytic Virotherapy for Malignant Glioma: From Bench to Bedside.Cancer management and research · 2025Review
- Human Melanoma and Glioblastoma Cells Express Cathepsins Supporting Reovirus Moscow Strain Infection.Viruses · 2024Article
- Microglia and macrophages in glioblastoma: landscapes and treatment directions.Molecular oncology · 2024Review
- Adipose-Derived Stem Cells as Carrier of Pro-Apoptotic Oncolytic Myxoma Virus: To Cross the Blood-Brain Barrier and Treat Murine Glioma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Research progress and challenges of the PD-1/PD-L1 axis in gliomas.Cell & bioscience · 2024Review
- CAR expression in invasive breast carcinoma and its effect on adenovirus transduction efficiency.Breast cancer research : BCR · 2024Article
- Current approaches in glioblastoma multiforme immunotherapy.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2024Review
- An Update on the Clinical Status, Challenges, and Future Directions of Oncolytic Virotherapy for Malignant Gliomas.Current treatment options in oncology · 2024Review
- Glioblastoma: a comprehensive approach combining bibliometric analysis, Latent Dirichlet Allocation, and HJ-Biplot : Glioblastoma insights and trends: a 49-year bibliometric analysis.Neurosurgical review · 2024Article
- Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors and Glioblastoma: A Review on Current State and Future Directions.Journal of immunotherapy and precision oncology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Glioblastoma is one of the most difficult tumor types to treat with conventional therapy options like tumor debulking and chemo- and radiotherapy. Immunotherapeutic agents like oncolytic viruses, immune checkpoint inhibitors, and chimeric antigen receptor T cells have revolutionized cancer therapy, but their success in glioblastoma remains limited and further optimization of immunotherapies is needed. Several oncolytic viruses have demonstrated the ability to infect tumors and trigger anti-tumor immune responses in malignant glioma patients. Leading the pack, oncolytic herpesvirus, first in its class, awaits an approval for treating malignant glioma from MHLW, the federal authority of Japan. Nevertheless, some major hurdles like the blood-brain barrier, the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment, and tumor heterogeneity can engender suboptimal efficacy in malignant glioma. In this review, we discuss the current status of malignant glioma therapies with a focus on oncolytic viruses in clinical trials. Furthermore, we discuss the obstacles faced by oncolytic viruses in malignant glioma patients and strategies that are being used to overcome these limitations to (1) optimize delivery of oncolytic viruses beyond the blood-brain barrier; (2) trigger inflammatory immune responses in and around tumors; and (3) use multimodal therapies in combination to tackle tumor heterogeneity, with an end goal of optimizing the therapeutic outcome of oncolytic virotherapy.
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