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ReviewThe Lancet. Oncology2023

Current drug development and trial designs in neuro-oncology: report from the first American Society of Clinical Oncology and Society for Neuro-Oncology Clinical Trials Conference.

Rifaquat Rahman, Mei-Yin C Polley, Laura Alder, Priscilla K Brastianos, Carey K Anders, Hussein A Tawbi, Minesh Mehta, Patrick Y Wen, Susan Geyer, John de Groot and 4 more

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Review in The Lancet. Oncology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
22citing papers in PubMed
6.6field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

22 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

14 authors at 10 institutions in 2 countries.

Rifaquat RahmanDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: rrahman@bwh.harvard.edu.
Mei-Yin C PolleyDepartment of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Laura AlderDuke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
Priscilla K BrastianosMassachusetts General Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Carey K AndersDuke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
Hussein A TawbiMD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Minesh MehtaMiami Cancer Institute, Baptist Hospital, Miami, FL, USA.
Patrick Y WenCentre for Neuro-Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Center for Neuro-Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Susan GeyerDepartment of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
John de GrootUniversity of California San Francisco Brain Tumor Center, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Gelareh ZadehDepartment of Neurological Surgery University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Steven PiantadosiDepartment of Surgery, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Evanthia GalanisDepartment of Oncology, Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
Mustafa KhasrawDuke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center · USDuke Medical Center · USBaptist Hospital of Miami · USChicago Department of Public Health · USMassachusetts General Hospital · USMayo Clinic in Arizona · USMayo Clinic in Florida · USThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · USUniversity of Toronto · CA

Funding

Statistics CoreU10CA180822 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Elaina Harper · 2014 to 2026
$146.4M
Collaborations and NCORP Collective ManagementUG1CA189823 · NCI · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI Evanthia Galanis, Olwen Hahn · 2014 to 2026
$120.6M
Targeted Alpha-Particle Radiotheraphy of Brain Tumors with 211At-81C6 AntibodyP50CA190991 · NCI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI ALI-OSMAN, FRANCIS, ASHLEY, DAVID M. · 2014 to 2023
$20.8M
Project 3: Phase-2 Trial of Oncolytic Poliovirus (PVSRIPO) combined with CCNU (lomustine) against Recurrent GlioblastomaP01CA225622 · NCI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI WEINHOLD, KENT J. · 2018 to 2022
$12.2M
Therapy Evaluation CoreU19CA264362 · NCI · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI BINDRA, RANJIT, GALANIS, EVANTHIA · 2021 to 2025
$7.6M
Biomarker, Bioinformatics and Biorepository CoreU19CA264385 · NCI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI David M. Ashley · 2021 to 2026
$5.4M
Human EGFRvIII-specific BiTE for the treatment of GlioblastomaU01NS090284 · NINDS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI SAMPSON, JOHN H. · 2015 to 2019
$5.2M
Clinical Brain Tumor Development of a Cytomegalovirus-targeted Therapeutic with Vaccine pre-conditioning to Validate Novel Predictors of Vaccine EfficacyR01CA235612 · NCI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI SAMPSON, JOHN H. · 2019 to 2022
$2.0M
Novel multipronged Immunovirotherapy Approach for GBM TreatmentR01CA258239 · NCI · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI GALANIS, EVANTHIA · 2021 to 2025
$1.9M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA225622NCI NIH HHS P50 CA190991NCI NIH HHS R01 CA235612NCI NIH HHS R01 CA258239NCI NIH HHS U10 CA180822NCI NIH HHS U19 CA264362NCI NIH HHS U19 CA264385NCI NIH HHS UG1 CA189823NINDS NIH HHS U01 NS090284
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Successful drug development for people with cancers of the CNS has been challenging. There are multiple barriers to successful drug development including biological factors, rarity of the disease, and ineffective use of clinical trials. Based upon a series of presentations at the First Central Nervous System Clinical Trials Conference hosted by the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the Society for Neuro-Oncology, we provide an overview on drug development and novel trial designs in neuro-oncology. This Review discusses the challenges of therapeutic development in neuro-oncology and proposes strategies to improve the drug discovery process by enriching the pipeline of promising therapies, optimising trial design, incorporating biomarkers, using external data, and maximising efficacy and reproducibility of clinical trials.

Indexed as

NeoplasmsDrug DevelopmentHumansMedical OncologyReproducibility of ResultsSocieties, Medical

Identifiers

PMID36990614
PMCPMC10401610
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