Emerging therapies for glioblastoma: current state and future directions

L Rong, N Li, Z Zhang - Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer …, 2022 - Springer
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common high-grade primary malignant brain tumor with an
extremely poor prognosis. Given the poor survival with currently approved treatments for …

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM): An overview of current therapies and mechanisms of resistance

W Wu, JL Klockow, M Zhang, F Lafortune… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a WHO grade IV glioma and the most common malignant,
primary brain tumor with a 5-year survival of 7.2%. Its highly infiltrative nature, genetic …

Brain immunology and immunotherapy in brain tumours

JH Sampson, MD Gunn, PE Fecci, DM Ashley - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Gliomas, the most common malignant primary brain tumours, remain universally lethal. Yet,
seminal discoveries in the past 5 years have clarified the anatomy, genetics and function of …

Mechanisms of immunotherapy resistance: lessons from glioblastoma

CM Jackson, J Choi, M Lim - Nature immunology, 2019 - nature.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the deadliest form of brain cancer, with a median survival of less than
2 years despite surgical resection, radiation, and chemotherapy. GBM's rapid progression …

Molecular targeted therapy: Treating cancer with specificity

YT Lee, YJ Tan, CE Oon - European journal of pharmacology, 2018 - Elsevier
Molecular targeted therapies are revolutionized therapeutics which interfere with specific
molecules to block cancer growth, progression, and metastasis. Many molecular targeted …

Intratumoral IL-12 delivery empowers CAR-T cell immunotherapy in a pre-clinical model of glioblastoma

G Agliardi, AR Liuzzi, A Hotblack, D De Feo… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and aggressive form of primary brain
cancer, for which effective therapies are urgently needed. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) …

Current state of immunotherapy for glioblastoma

M Lim, Y Xia, C Bettegowda, M Weller - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2018 - nature.com
Glioma is the most common primary cancer of the central nervous system, and around 50%
of patients present with the most aggressive form of the disease, glioblastoma. Conventional …

A single dose of peripherally infused EGFRvIII-directed CAR T cells mediates antigen loss and induces adaptive resistance in patients with recurrent glioblastoma

DM O'Rourke, MLP Nasrallah, A Desai… - Science translational …, 2017 - science.org
We conducted a first-in-human study of intravenous delivery of a single dose of autologous T
cells redirected to the epidermal growth factor receptor variant III (EGFRvIII) mutation by a …

Rindopepimut with temozolomide for patients with newly diagnosed, EGFRvIII-expressing glioblastoma (ACT IV): a randomised, double-blind, international phase 3 …

M Weller, N Butowski, DD Tran, LD Recht, M Lim… - The lancet …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background Rindopepimut (also known as CDX-110), a vaccine targeting the EGFR
deletion mutation EGFRvIII, consists of an EGFRvIII-specific peptide conjugated to keyhole …

Targeting neoantigens to augment antitumour immunity

M Yarchoan, BA Johnson III, ER Lutz… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
The past decade of cancer research has been marked by a growing appreciation of the role
of immunity in cancer. Mutations in the tumour genome can cause tumours to express …