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ReviewCancers2023

The Use of Targeted Cytokines as Cancer Therapeutics in Glioblastoma.

Moloud Sooreshjani, Shashwat Tripathi, Corey Dussold, Hinda Najem, John de Groot, Rimas V Lukas, Amy B Heimberger

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Review in Cancers, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Immunotherapy in Glioblastoma.Cancer treatment and research · 2025
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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

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Moloud SooreshjaniDepartment of Neurological Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Shashwat TripathiDepartment of Neurological Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Corey DussoldDepartment of Neurological Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Hinda NajemDepartment of Neurological Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4432-9708
John de GrootDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
Rimas V LukasDepartment of Neurology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Amy B HeimbergerDepartment of Neurological Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9970-8695
Northwestern University · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

CARCINOGENESIS TRAINING PROGRAMT32CA009560 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI Kathleen Janee Green · 1986 to 2026
$8.4M
NCI NIH HHS T32 CA009560
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cytokines play an important role in regulating the immune response. Although there is great interest in exploiting cytokines for cancer immunotherapy, their clinical potential is limited by their pleiotropic properties and instability. A variety of cancer cell-intrinsic and extrinsic characteristics pose a barrier to effective treatments including cytokines. Recent studies using gene and cell therapy offer new opportunities for targeting cytokines or their receptors, demonstrating that they are actionable targets. Current efforts such as virotherapy, systemic cytokine therapy, and cellular and gene therapy have provided novel strategies that incorporate cytokines as potential therapeutic strategies for glioblastoma. Ongoing research on characterizing the tumor microenvironment will be informative for prioritization and combinatorial strategies of cytokines for future clinical trials. Unique therapeutic opportunities exist at the convergence of cytokines that play a dual role in tumorigenesis and immune modulation. Here, we discuss the underlying strategies in pre- and clinical trials aiming to enhance treatment outcomes in glioblastoma patients.

Indexed as

cytokinesgliomatumor microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID37509400
PMCPMC10378451
OpenAlexW4385212677

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Registered trials

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