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 …

Immunotherapy for glioblastoma: current progress and challenges

MW Yu, DF Quail - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Glioblastoma is a highly lethal brain cancer with a median survival rate of less than 15
months when treated with the current standard of care, which consists of surgery …

Pilot trial of adoptive transfer of chimeric antigen receptor–transduced T cells targeting EGFRvIII in patients with glioblastoma

SL Goff, RA Morgan, JC Yang, RM Sherry… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
A deletion variant of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFRvIII) is a known driver mutation
in a subset of primary and secondary glioblastoma multiforme. Adoptive transfer of …

Glioblastoma

HG Wirsching, M Weller - Malignant Brain Tumors: State-of-the-Art …, 2017 - Springer
Glioblastoma is the most aggressive and the most common primary malignant brain tumor in
adults. Risk factors for glioblastoma are widely elusive and the clinical course is generally …

Current and future strategies for treatment of glioma

NAO Bush, SM Chang, MS Berger - Neurosurgical review, 2017 - Springer
Gliomas are one of the most common types of primary brain tumors and have remained
particularly challenging to treat. This review illustrates a multidisciplinary approach to the …

EGFR heterogeneity and implications for therapeutic intervention in glioblastoma

E Eskilsson, GV Røsland, G Solecki, Q Wang… - Neuro …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Patients with glioblastoma (GBM) have a universally poor prognosis and are in urgent need
of effective treatment strategies. Recent advances in sequencing techniques unraveled the …

Exploiting the curative potential of adoptive T‐cell therapy for cancer

CS Hinrichs, SA Rosenberg - Immunological reviews, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Adoptive T‐cell therapy (ACT) is a potent and flexible cancer treatment modality that can
induce complete, durable regression of certain human malignancies. Long‐term follow‐up …

Targeted therapy resistance mediated by dynamic regulation of extrachromosomal mutant EGFR DNA

DA Nathanson, B Gini, J Mottahedeh, K Visnyei… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Intratumoral heterogeneity contributes to cancer drug resistance, but the underlying
mechanisms are not understood. Single-cell analyses of patient-derived models and clinical …

Comprehensive genomic characterization defines human glioblastoma genes and core pathways

Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network Tissue … - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Human cancer cells typically harbour multiple chromosomal aberrations, nucleotide
substitutions and epigenetic modifications that drive malignant transformation. The Cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Fucoidan and cancer: A multifunctional molecule with anti-tumor potential

F Atashrazm, RM Lowenthal, GM Woods, AF Holloway… - Marine drugs, 2015 - mdpi.com
There is a wide variety of cancer types yet, all share some common cellular and molecular
behaviors. Most of the chemotherapeutic agents used in cancer treatment are designed to …