ReviewExpert opinion on investigational drugs
Investigational treatment strategies in glioblastoma: progress made and barriers to success.
Review in Expert opinion on investigational drugs. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.
- MALT1 protease inhibition restrains glioblastoma progression by reversing tumor-associated macrophage-dependent immunosuppression in mice.Nature communications · 2026Article
- SRSF3 promotes the generation of XBP1s to stabilize autophagy and enhance hypoxia adaptation in glioma.European journal of histochemistry : EJH · 2026Article
- GeoMx Spatial Transcriptomics for Comprehensive Glioblastoma Molecular Profiling.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026Article
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- Value of artificial intelligence in neuro-oncology.The Lancet. Digital health · 2025Review
- Glioblastoma: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Its Pathophysiology, Treatment, and Innovative Therapeutic Strategies.Biomedicines · 2025Review
- Neoantigen-based immunotherapy: advancing precision medicine in cancer and glioblastoma treatment through discovery and innovation.Exploration of targeted anti-tumor therapy · 2025Review
- Altering fractionation during radiation overcomes radio-resistance in patient-derived glioblastoma cells assessed using a novel longitudinal radiation cytotoxicity assay.Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology · 2025Article
- Immunotherapy for glioblastoma: current state, challenges, and future perspectives.Cellular & molecular immunology · 2024Review
- Multi-omics analysis reveals the association between specific solute carrier proteins gene expression patterns and the immune suppressive microenvironment in glioma.Journal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2024Article
- Viruses in glioblastoma: an update on evidence and clinical trials.BJC reports · 2024Review
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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
introductionGlioblastoma, isocitrate dehydrogenase wildtype (IDHwt), remains an incurable disease despite considerable research effort. The current standard of care since 2005 comprises maximal safe resection followed by radiation with concurrent and adjuvant temozolomide; more recently, the addition of tumor treating fields was approved in the newly diagnosed and recurrent disease settings. AREAS COVERED: Searches of PubMed, Cochrane Library, and ClinicalTrials.gov provided a foundation for this review. We first describe early research including carmustine wafers, brachytherapy, anti-angiogenesis, and immune checkpoint inhibition for glioblastoma. Next, we discuss challenges precluding the translation of preclinical successes. This is followed by a description of promising treatments such as chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy as well as the recent qualified successes of cancer vaccinations. Non-immunotherapy trials are also highlighted, and ongoing or pending phase 2 and 3 clinical trials are codified in study tables. EXPERT OPINION: Unfortunately, hundreds of trials, including of agents effective in systemic malignancy, have not drastically changed management of glioblastoma. This may reflect unique resistance mechanisms and highlights a need for multimodality treatments beyond surgery, radiation, and conventional chemotherapy. Novel techniques, such as those in the emerging field of cancer neuroscience, may help uncover tolerable and effective regimens for this lethal malignancy.
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