EANO guideline on the diagnosis and management of meningiomas

R Goldbrunner, P Stavrinou, MD Jenkinson… - Neuro …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Meningiomas are the most common intracranial tumors. Yet, only few controlled clinical trials
have been conducted to guide clinical decision making, resulting in variations of …

Current treatment options for meningioma

C Apra, M Peyre, M Kalamarides - Expert review of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: With an annual incidence of 5/100,000, meningioma is the most frequent
primary tumor of the central nervous system. Risk factors are radiotherapy and hormone …

Phase 2 study of pembrolizumab in patients with recurrent and residual high-grade meningiomas

PK Brastianos, AE Kim, A Giobbie-Hurder… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
High-grade meningiomas are associated with neuro-cognitive morbidity and have limited
treatments. High-grade meningiomas harbor an immunosuppressive tumor …

Relationship between tumor location, size, and WHO grade in meningioma

ST Magill, JS Young, R Chae, MK Aghi… - Neurosurgical …, 2018 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE Prior studies have investigated preoperative risk factors for meningioma;
however, no association has been shown between meningioma tumor size and tumor …

Advances in multidisciplinary therapy for meningiomas

PK Brastianos, E Galanis, N Butowski, JW Chan… - Neuro …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Surgery has long been established as the first-line treatment for the majority of symptomatic
and enlarging meningiomas, and evidence for its success is derived from retrospective case …

Emerging systemic treatment options in meningioma

MJ Mair, AS Berghoff, PK Brastianos… - Journal of neuro …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose Meningiomas are the most frequently diagnosed intracranial neoplasms. Usually,
they are treated by surgical resection in curative intent. Radiotherapy and stereotactic …

Activity of PD-1 blockade with nivolumab among patients with recurrent atypical/anaplastic meningioma: phase II trial results

WL Bi, L Nayak, DM Meredith, J Driver, Z Du… - Neuro …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) contributes to tumor immunosuppression
and is upregulated in aggressive meningiomas. We performed a phase II study of …

PD1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint as a potential target for preventing brain tumor progression

A Filippone, M Lanza, D Mannino, G Raciti… - Cancer Immunology …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Programmed death-1 (PD-1) is a cell surface receptor that functions as a T cell
checkpoint and plays a central role in regulating T cell collapse. The binding of PD-1 to its …

Increased expression of programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) in human pituitary tumors

Y Mei, WL Bi, NF Greenwald, Z Du, NYR Agar… - …, 2016 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Purpose Subsets of pituitary tumors exhibit an aggressive clinical courses and recur despite
surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. Because modulation of the immune response through …

Targeting the CSF1/CSF1R axis is a potential treatment strategy for malignant meningiomas

J Yeung, V Yaghoobi, D Miyagishima… - Neuro …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background Malignant meningiomas are fatal and lack effective therapy. As M2
macrophages are the most prevalent immune cell type in human meningiomas, we …