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ReviewGenes & development2022

Coming in from the cold: overcoming the hostile immune microenvironment of medulloblastoma.

Tanja Eisemann, Robert J Wechsler-Reya

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Review in Genes & development, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28citing papers in PubMed
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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

28 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Local delivery of interferon restores antigen presentation and sensitizes medulloblastoma to T cell killing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  3. From developmental origins to relapse: molecular and therapeutic insights in medulloblastoma.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2026
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  7. Targeting the COX-2/PGECancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII · 2026
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  18. Mechanistic insights into medulloblastoma relapse.Pharmacology & therapeutics · 2024
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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tanja EisemannTumor Initiation and Maintenance Program, National Cancer Institute-Designated Cancer Center, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5981-6491
Robert J Wechsler-ReyaTumor Initiation and Maintenance Program, National Cancer Institute-Designated Cancer Center, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute · US

Funding

Tumor Microenvironment and Cancer ImmunologyP30CA030199 · NCI · SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE · PI ELENA B PASQUALE · 1985 to 2026
$107.2M
Mouse models to discover new drivers of medulloblastomaR01CA159859 · NCI · SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE · PI Michael D. Taylor, WILLIAM A WEISS · 2011 to 2026
$10.4M
Identifying and Targeting the Drivers of Pediatric Brain TumorsR35NS122339 · NINDS · SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE · PI Robert J. Wechsler-Reya · 2021 to 2026
$3.6M
Identifying therapeutic pathways targeting medulloblastoma-immune cell interactionsU01CA253547 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI FRAENKEL, ERNEST, MESIROV, JILL P. · 2021 to 2025
$2.7M
Regulation of Medulloblastoma Metastasis by Emp1R01NS096368 · NINDS · SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE · PI WECHSLER-REYA, ROBERT J. · 2016 to 2020
$2.1M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA030199NCI NIH HHS R01 CA159859NCI NIH HHS U01 CA253547NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS096368
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Medulloblastoma is an aggressive brain tumor that occurs predominantly in children. Despite intensive therapy, many patients die of the disease, and novel therapies are desperately needed. Although immunotherapy has shown promise in many cancers, the low mutational burden, limited infiltration of immune effector cells, and immune-suppressive microenvironment of medulloblastoma have led to the assumption that it is unlikely to respond to immunotherapy. However, emerging evidence is challenging this view. Here we review recent preclinical and clinical studies that have identified mechanisms of immune evasion in medulloblastoma, and highlight possible therapeutic interventions that may give new hope to medulloblastoma patients and their families.

Indexed as

Brain NeoplasmsCerebellar NeoplasmsMedulloblastomaChildHumansImmunotherapyTumor Microenvironmentantigen presentationCAR T cellimmune checkpointimmunotherapymedulloblastomamyeloid celloncolytic viruspediatric brain tumorvaccination

Identifiers

PMID35680424
PMCPMC9186392
OpenAlexW4282923113

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