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ReviewClinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research2022

Glioblastoma Clinical Trials: Current Landscape and Opportunities for Improvement.

Stephen J Bagley, Shawn Kothari, Rifaquat Rahman, Eudocia Q Lee, Gavin P Dunn, Evanthia Galanis, Susan M Chang, Louis Burt Nabors, Manmeet S Ahluwalia, Roger Stupp and 10 more

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Review in Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 109 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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109citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

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

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  3. Accelerating discovery: Transformative clinical trial models in neuro-oncology.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2026
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  10. A Genomically Tailored Multiagent Precision Medicine Clinical Trial for Adults with Recurrent Glioblastoma.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2026
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49 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

20 authors.

Stephen J BagleyDepartment of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Shawn KothariDepartment of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Rifaquat RahmanDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Eudocia Q LeeCenter for Neuro-Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.ORCID 0000-0003-3355-5179
Gavin P DunnDepartment of Neurological Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri.
Evanthia GalanisDivision of Medical Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.ORCID 0000-0001-8014-786X
Susan M ChangDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
Louis Burt NaborsDivision of Neuro-oncology, Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.ORCID 0000-0001-5926-2230
Manmeet S AhluwaliaDepartment of Medical Oncology, Miami Cancer Institute, Baptist Health South Florida, Miami, Florida.
Roger StuppDepartment of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.ORCID 0000-0002-5483-3118
Minesh P MehtaDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Miami Cancer Institute, Baptist Health South Florida, Miami, Florida.ORCID 0000-0002-4812-5713
David A ReardonCenter for Neuro-Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.
Stuart A GrossmanDepartment of Oncology, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, Baltimore, Maryland.
Erik P SulmanDepartment of Radiation Oncology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York.ORCID 0000-0003-4933-9120
John H SampsonPreston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.
Simon KhagiDivision of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Michael WellerDepartment of Neurology and Brain Tumor Center, University Hospital and University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1748-174X
Timothy F CloughesyDepartment of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
Patrick Y WenCenter for Neuro-Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.
Mustafa KhasrawPreston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.ORCID 0000-0003-3249-9849

Funding

UCLA SPORE in Brain CancerP50CA211015 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI Yvonne Yu-Hsuan Chen · 2017 to 2026
$25.2M
CANCER RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAMT32CA009615 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Gregory L Beatty, MICHAEL D HOGARTY · 1988 to 2026
$10.4M
NCI NIH HHS P50 CA211015NCI NIH HHS T32 CA009615
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Therapeutic advances for glioblastoma have been minimal over the past 2 decades. In light of the multitude of recent phase III trials that have failed to meet their primary endpoints following promising preclinical and early-phase programs, a Society for Neuro-Oncology Think Tank was held in November 2020 to prioritize areas for improvement in the conduct of glioblastoma clinical trials. Here, we review the literature, identify challenges related to clinical trial eligibility criteria and trial design in glioblastoma, and provide recommendations from the Think Tank. In addition, we provide a data-driven context with which to frame this discussion by analyzing key study design features of adult glioblastoma clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov as "recruiting" or "not yet recruiting" as of February 2021.

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Brain NeoplasmsGlioblastomaAdultHumansResearch Design

Identifiers

PMID34561269
PMCPMC9044253

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