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ReviewBrain sciences2025

Towards a New Dawn for Neuro-Oncology: Nanomedicine at the Service of Drug Delivery for Primary and Secondary Brain Tumours.

Smita Khilar, Antonina Dembinska-Kenner, Helen Hall, Nikolaos Syrmos, Gianfranco K I Ligarotti, Puneet Plaha, Vasileios Apostolopoulos, Salvatore Chibbaro, Giuseppe Maria Vincenzo Barbagallo, Mario Ganau

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Review in Brain sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

10 authors.

Smita KhilarDepartment of Neurosurgery, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford OX3 0AG, UK.
Antonina Dembinska-KennerDepartment of Neurosurgery, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford OX3 0AG, UK.
Helen HallDepartment of Neurosurgery, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford OX3 0AG, UK.
Nikolaos SyrmosSchool of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-6703-8095
Gianfranco K I LigarottiAerospace Medical Institute of Milan "A. Mosso", Italian Air Force, 20138 Milan, Italy.
Puneet PlahaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford OX3 0AG, UK.
Vasileios ApostolopoulosDepartment of Neurosurgery, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford OX3 0AG, UK.
Salvatore ChibbaroNeurosurgery Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Neurosciences, Siena University, 53100 Siena, Italy.
Giuseppe Maria Vincenzo BarbagalloDepartment of Neurological Surgery, Policlinico "G. Rodolico-S. Marco" University Hospital, 95121 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7760-6700
Mario GanauDepartment of Neurosurgery, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford OX3 0AG, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8676-1147

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

(1) Background/Objectives: Primary and secondary brain tumours often hold devastating prognoses and low survival rates despite the application of maximal neurosurgical resection, and state-of-the-art radiotherapy and chemotherapy. One limiting factor in their management is that several antineoplastic agents are unable to cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) to reach the tumour microenvironment. Nanomedicine could hold the potential to become an effective means of drug delivery to overcome previous hurdles towards effective neuro-oncological treatments. (2) Methods: A scoping review following the PRISMA-ScR guidelines and checklist was conducted using key terms input into PubMed to find articles that reflect emerging trends in the utilisation of nanomedicine in drug delivery for primary and secondary brain tumours. (3) Results: The review highlights various strategies by which different nanoparticles can be exploited to bypass the BBB; we provide a synthesis of the literature on the ongoing contributions to therapeutic protocols based on chemotherapy, immunotherapy, focused ultrasound, radiotherapy/radiosurgery, and radio-immunotherapy. (4) Conclusions: The emerging trends summarised in this scoping review indicate encouraging advantageous properties of nanoparticles as potential effective drug delivery mechanisms; however, there are still nanotoxicity issues that largely remain to be addressed before the translation of these innovations from laboratory to clinical practice.

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antineoplastic agentsblood–brain barrierbrain metastasesbrain tumoursbreast metastaseschemotherapydrug deliveryglioblastomagliomashyaluronic acid nanospheresimmunotherapylipid nanoparticleslung metastasesmagnetic nanoparticlesmalignant melanomameningiomamicellesnanoparticlenanoscale immunoconjugatespolymeric nanoparticlesradio-immunotherapyradiosensitiserssilica nanoparticleszirconium nanoparticles

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PMID40002469
PMCPMC11852924

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