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ReviewCancers2025

The Complexity of Malignant Glioma Treatment.

Linde F C Kampers, Dennis S Metselaar, Maria Vinci, Fabio Scirocchi, Sophie Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Matthias Eyrich, Veronica Biassoni, Esther Hulleman, Michael Karremann, Wilfried Stücker and 1 more

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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 9 papers.

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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

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

11 authors.

Linde F C KampersImmun-Onkologisches Zentrum Köln, 50674 Köln, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3479-3593
Dennis S MetselaarPrincess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-5559-2435
Maria VinciBambino Gesu' Children's Hospital-IRCCS, 00165 Rome, RM, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7952-6771
Fabio ScirocchiBambino Gesu' Children's Hospital-IRCCS, 00165 Rome, RM, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6408-2055
Sophie Veldhuijzen van ZantenPrincess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-3888-0977
Matthias EyrichUniversity Hospital Würzburg, 97080 Würzburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8099-5903
Veronica BiassoniFondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, 20133 Milano, MI, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1486-1736
Esther HullemanPrincess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-9256-947X
Michael KarremannUniversity Hospital Mannheim, 68166 Mannheim, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9961-4752
Wilfried StückerImmun-Onkologisches Zentrum Köln, 50674 Köln, Germany.
Stefaan W Van GoolImmun-Onkologisches Zentrum Köln, 50674 Köln, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8102-5968

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Malignant glioma is a highly aggressive, therapeutically non-responsive, and deadly disease with a unique tumor microenvironment (TME). Of the 14 currently recognized and described cancer hallmarks, five are especially implicated in malignant glioma and targetable with repurposed drugs: cancer stem-like cells, in general, and glioma stem-like cells in particular (GSCs), vascularization and hypoxia, metabolic reprogramming, tumor-promoting inflammation and sustained proliferative signaling. Each hallmark drives malignant glioma development, both individually and through interactions with other hallmarks, in which the TME plays a critical role. To combat the aggressive malignant glioma spatio-temporal heterogeneity driven by TME interactions, and to overcome its therapeutic challenges, a combined treatment strategy including anticancer therapies, repurposed drugs and multimodal immunotherapy should be the aim for future treatment approaches.

Indexed as

immunotherapymalignant gliomatumor microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID40075726
PMCPMC11899524

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