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ReviewFrontiers in oncology2025

Vaccine therapies for glioma: clinical frontiers and potential breakthrough.

Ying Xing, Caixia Liu, Yunfeng Feng, Shangyu Li, Yuping Chen

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Review in Frontiers in oncology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

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

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  5. Current Status and Evolution of Immunotherapy in Glioma Management.International journal of medical sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Ying Xing *Key Laboratory of Clinical Research on Respiratory and Digestive Diseases, Baoding Institute of Pediatrics, Baoding Hospital of Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, Baoding, Hebei, China.
Caixia Liu *Key Laboratory of Clinical Research on Respiratory and Digestive Diseases, Baoding Institute of Pediatrics, Baoding Hospital of Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, Baoding, Hebei, China.
Yunfeng FengDepartment of Research & Development, Celest Therapeutics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd, Shanghai, China.
Shangyu LiKey Laboratory of Clinical Research on Respiratory and Digestive Diseases, Baoding Institute of Pediatrics, Baoding Hospital of Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, Baoding, Hebei, China.
Yuping ChenKey Laboratory of Clinical Research on Respiratory and Digestive Diseases, Baoding Institute of Pediatrics, Baoding Hospital of Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, Baoding, Hebei, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glioma, the most common primary malignant brain tumor, is characterized by high recurrence and mortality rates. Its effective treatment remains a therapeutic challenge in clinical neuro-oncology. Despite over twenty years of exploring new therapies for glioma, progress in improving patient survival outcomes has been limited. Tumor vaccines, as a promising therapeutic approach, may offer hope for glioma treatment. Currently, tumor vaccines targeting glioma include peptide vaccines, dendritic cell vaccines, and nucleic acid vaccines. Neoantigens, due to their high specificity and resistance to central immune tolerance, are ideal targets for tumor vaccines. Although promising results have been resulted in preclinical and clinical for glioma vaccines, there are still challenges impeding vaccine therapy for glioma. Therefore, future glioma vaccine applications must focus on the important roles of epitope spreading and antigen quality in enhancing immune response and therapeutic effectiveness. In this review, we discuss the current glioma vaccine antigen targets and types, introduce recent important clinical studies on glioma vaccines, and propose strategies to address potential barriers to vaccine application.

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antigen qualityepitope spreadinggliomaneoantigenvaccine

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PMID40661781
PMCPMC12257104

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