Brain tumor segmentation of MRI images: A comprehensive review on the application of artificial intelligence tools

R Ranjbarzadeh, A Caputo, EB Tirkolaee… - Computers in biology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Brain cancer is a destructive and life-threatening disease that imposes
immense negative effects on patients' lives. Therefore, the detection of brain tumors at an …

Enhancing cancer immunotherapy using antiangiogenics: opportunities and challenges

D Fukumura, J Kloepper, Z Amoozgar… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2018 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has emerged as a major therapeutic modality in oncology. Currently,
however, the majority of patients with cancer do not derive benefit from these treatments …

Single-dose injectable nanovaccine-in-hydrogel for robust immunotherapy of large tumors with abscopal effect

F Cheng, T Su, S Zhou, X Liu, S Yang, S Lin, W Guo… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Current cancer immunotherapy [eg, immune checkpoint blockade (ICB)] only benefits small
subsets of patients, largely due to immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME). In …

[HTML][HTML] Macrophages and microglia: the cerberus of glioblastoma

A Buonfiglioli, D Hambardzumyan - Acta neuropathologica …, 2021 - Springer
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive and deadliest of the primary brain tumors,
characterized by malignant growth, invasion into the brain parenchyma, and resistance to …

[HTML][HTML] Nanocarrier-based drug combination therapy for glioblastoma

M Zhao, D van Straten, MLD Broekman, V Préat… - Theranostics, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The current achievements in treating glioblastoma (GBM) patients are not sufficient because
many challenges exist, such as tumor heterogeneity, the blood brain barrier, glioma stem …

Neuronavigation-guided focused ultrasound for transcranial blood-brain barrier opening and immunostimulation in brain tumors

KT Chen, WY Chai, YJ Lin, CJ Lin, PY Chen… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Focused ultrasound (FUS) in the presence of microbubbles can transiently open the blood-
brain barrier (BBB) to increase therapeutic agent penetration at the targeted brain site to …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of resistance and current treatment options for glioblastoma multiforme (GBM)

SSK Yalamarty, N Filipczak, X Li, MA Subhan… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Glioblastoma multiforme is one of the hardest-to-treat brain tumors, often
resistant to conventional treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Despite …

[HTML][HTML] Magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles for imaging, targeting and treatment of primary and metastatic tumors of the brain

LL Israel, A Galstyan, E Holler, JY Ljubimova - Journal of Controlled …, 2020 - Elsevier
Magnetic nanoparticles in general, and iron oxide nanoparticles in particular, have been
studied extensively during the past 20 years for numerous biomedical applications. The …

Glioma diagnosis and therapy: current challenges and nanomaterial-based solutions

T Li, J Li, Z Chen, S Zhang, S Li, S Wageh… - Journal of controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Glioma is often referred to as one of the most dreadful central nervous system (CNS)-specific
tumors with rapidly-proliferating cancerous glial cells, accounting for nearly half of the brain …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular heterogeneity and immunosuppressive microenvironment in glioblastoma

S DeCordova, A Shastri, AG Tsolaki, H Yasmin… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive primary brain tumor in adults, with a poor
prognosis, despite surgical resection combined with radio-and chemotherapy. The major …