Management of glioblastoma: State of the art and future directions

AC Tan, DM Ashley, GY López… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Glioblastoma is the most common malignant primary brain tumor. Overall, the prognosis for
patients with this disease is poor, with a median survival of< 2 years. There is a slight …

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 …

Combination therapy with anti-PD-1, anti-TIM-3, and focal radiation results in regression of murine gliomas

JE Kim, MA Patel, A Mangraviti, ES Kim… - Clinical Cancer …, 2017 - AACR
Purpose: Checkpoint molecules like programmed death-1 (PD-1) and T-cell immunoglobulin
mucin-3 (TIM-3) are negative immune regulators that may be upregulated in the setting of …

Dendritic cell vaccination of glioblastoma: road to success or dead end

A Datsi, RV Sorg - Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Glioblastomas (GBM) are the most frequent and aggressive malignant primary brain tumor
and remains a therapeutic challenge: even after multimodal therapy, median survival of …

Gene expression profile correlates with T-cell infiltration and relative survival in glioblastoma patients vaccinated with dendritic cell immunotherapy

RM Prins, H Soto, V Konkankit, SK Odesa, A Eskin… - Clinical cancer …, 2011 - AACR
Purpose: To assess the feasibility, safety, and toxicity of autologous tumor lysate–pulsed
dendritic cell (DC) vaccination and toll-like receptor (TLR) agonists in patients with newly …

Dendritic cell vaccines based on immunogenic cell death elicit danger signals and T cell–driven rejection of high-grade glioma

AD Garg, L Vandenberk, C Koks… - Science translational …, 2016 - science.org
The promise of dendritic cell (DC)–based immunotherapy has been established by two
decades of translational research. Of the four malignancies most targeted with clinical DC …

HMGB1 mediates endogenous TLR2 activation and brain tumor regression

JF Curtin, N Liu, M Candolfi, W Xiong, H Assi… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Background Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most aggressive primary brain tumor that
carries a 5-y survival rate of 5%. Attempts at eliciting a clinically relevant anti-GBM immune …

White paper on microbial anti-cancer therapy and prevention

NS Forbes, RS Coffin, L Deng, L Evgin… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract In this White Paper, we discuss the current state of microbial cancer therapy. This
paper resulted from a meeting ('Microbial Based Cancer Therapy') at the US National …

Immunotherapy advances for glioblastoma

DA Reardon, G Freeman, C Wu, EA Chiocca… - Neuro …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Survival for patients with glioblastoma, the most common high-grade primary CNS tumor,
remains poor despite multiple therapeutic interventions including intensifying cytotoxic …

Phase II multicenter study of gene-mediated cytotoxic immunotherapy as adjuvant to surgical resection for newly diagnosed malignant glioma

LA Wheeler, AG Manzanera, SD Bell… - Neuro …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Background Despite aggressive standard of care (SOC) treatment, survival of malignant
gliomas remains very poor. This Phase II, prospective, matched controlled, multicenter trial …