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ReviewCancers2025

Gas Plasma Technology and Immunogenic Cell Death: Implications for Chordoma Treatment.

Sander Bekeschus, Karl Roessler, Oliver Kepp, Eric Freund

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Review in Cancers, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Orchestration of Tumor-Associated Macrophages in the Tumor Cell-Macrophage-CD8International journal of biological sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sander BekeschusZIK plasmatis, Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP), 17489 Greifswald, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8773-8862
Karl RoesslerDepartment of Neurosurgery, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-9249-8082
Oliver KeppCentre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Equipe Labellisée par la Ligue Contre le Cancer, Université de Paris, Sorbonne Université, Inserm U1138, Institut Universitaire de France, 75005 Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0002-6081-9558
Eric FreundDepartment of Neurosurgery, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0003-2950-0984

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer is the second-leading cause of death in developed societies. Specifically, cancers of the spine and brain come with significant therapeutic challenges. Chordomas are semi-malignant tumors that develop from embryonic residuals at the skull base (clival) or coccyx (sacral). Small tumor fragments can remain in the operation cavities during surgical resection, forming new tumor sites. This requires repeated surgeries or the application of proton-beam radiation and chemotherapy, which often do not lead to complete remission of the tumors. Hence, there is a need for novel therapeutic avenues that are not limited to killing visible tumors but can be applied after surgery to decrease chordoma recurrences. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated locally via novel medical gas plasma technologies are one potential approach to address this clinical problem. Previously, broad-spectrum free radicals generated by these cold physical plasmas operated at about body temperature were shown to oxidize cancer cells to the disadvantage of their growth and induce immunogenic cancer cell death (ICD), ultimately promoting anticancer immunity. This review outlines the clinical challenges of chordoma therapy, how medical gas plasma technology could serve as an adjuvant treatment modality, and potential immune-related mechanisms of action that could extend the longevity of gas plasma therapy beyond its acute local tissue effects.

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brain cancerCAPkINPenLTPneurosurgeryNTPoxidative stressplasma medicinereactive oxygen speciesROS

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PMID40002275
PMCPMC11852646

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