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ReviewCancer letters2022

Sonodynamic therapy: Rapid progress and new opportunities for non-invasive tumor cell killing with sound.

Katherine M Nowak, Mark R Schwartz, Victoria R Breza, Richard J Price

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Review in Cancer letters, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
62citing papers in PubMed
10.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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

62 citing papers in PubMed, 143 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. A Self-Immunoregulatory Nanosensitizer for Sonodynamic Cancer Therapy.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026
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  10. Trojan Horse Strategy: How Biomimetic Nanomedicine Remodels the Tumor Microenvironment.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Katherine M NowakDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Mark R SchwartzDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Victoria R BrezaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Richard J PriceDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA; Department of Radiology & Medical Imaging, Charlottesville, VA, USA. Electronic address: rprice@virginia.edu.
University of Virginia · USCharlottesville Medical Research · US

Funding

Cancer Research Training Program: From Molecular Mechanisms to Therapeutic StrategiesT32CA009109 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA CHARLOTTESVILLE · PI Andrew Carl Dudley, Melanie R Rutkowski · 1985 to 2026
$13.9M
Focused Ultrasound Regimens that Synergize with Melanoma ImmunotherapyR01EB030007 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI BULLOCK, TIMOTHY N, PRICE, RICHARD J. · 2020 to 2023
$2.6M
Targeted Delivery of Brain Penetrating DNA Nanoparticles to Brain TumorsR01CA204968 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI HANES, JUSTIN S., SUK, JUNG SOO · 2016 to 2020
$2.5M
Genome Editing the Blood-Brain Barrier with Sonoselective Focused UltrasoundR01EB030744 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI PRICE, RICHARD J. · 2021 to 2024
$2.4M
Focused ultrasound pre-conditioning for augmented nanoparticle penetration in infiltrative gliomasR01EB030409 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI HANES, JUSTIN S., PRICE, RICHARD J. · 2021 to 2024
$2.3M
ImmunoPET Assessment of anti-CD47 Immunotherapy Delivery to Glioblastoma with Focused UltrasoundR21NS118278 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI PRICE, RICHARD J. · 2020 to 2020
$420k
Leveraging MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound to Potentiate Immunotherapy for GBMR21CA226607 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI BULLOCK, TIMOTHY N · 2019 to 2020
$383k
Ceramide Nanoliposomes in Combination with Focused Ultrasound for Treating Breast CancerR21CA230088 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI KESTER, MARK, PRICE, RICHARD J. · 2018 to 2019
$355k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA204968NCI NIH HHS R21 CA226607NCI NIH HHS R21 CA230088NCI NIH HHS T32 CA009109NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB030007NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB030409NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB030744NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS118278
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Solid tumor treatment relies heavily upon chemotherapies, radiation, surgical resection, and/or immunotherapies. Although many alternative non-invasive solid tumor therapies have been proposed through the years and continue to be tested in various contexts, tumor cell eradication remains a daunting task for the current cancer armamentarium. Indeed, solid tumors exhibit physically and biochemically heterogenous microenvironments, allowing them to easily acquire resistance mechanisms. Progress in sonodynamic therapy (SDT), a treatment modality capable of controlling tumor growth while limiting off-target effects and toxicities, has accelerated in recent years. SDT combines "sonosensitizing" agents with the non-invasive application of focused acoustic energy [i.e. focused ultrasound (FUS)] to drive highly localized formation of tumor cell-killing reactive oxygen species (ROS). Sonosensitizers selectively accumulate in tumor cells, after which FUS radiation eliminates the tumor by forcing the tumor cells to undergo cell death. In this article, we comprehensively review recent studies wherein SDT has been applied to treat primary and metastatic tumors. We discuss sonosensitizers, combination therapies with SDT, developments in defining the mechanism of SDT-induced cell cytotoxicity, and the promise SDT offers as a modulator of anti-tumor immunity.

Indexed as

NeoplasmsUltrasonic TherapyCell DeathCell Line, TumorCombined Modality TherapyHumansReactive Oxygen SpeciesTumor MicroenvironmentReactive Oxygen SpeciesFocused ultrasoundImmunogenic cell deathImmunotherapyPhotodynamic therapySonosensitizers

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PMID35151824
PMCPMC8918024
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