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ReviewThe Journal of clinical investigation2019

Oncolytic viruses: overcoming translational challenges.

Jordi Martinez-Quintanilla, Ivan Seah, Melissa Chua, Khalid Shah

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Review in The Journal of clinical investigation, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 73 papers.

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73citing papers in PubMed
12.0field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

73 citing papers in PubMed, 110 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Oncolytic viruses: advanced strategies in cancer therapy.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026
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  6. The emerging role of oncolytic virotherapy in genitourinary malignancies.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026
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  14. Oncolytic viruses as cancer therapeutics: From mechanistic insights to clinical translation.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2025
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13 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Jordi Martinez-QuintanillaCenter for Stem Cell Therapeutics and Imaging and.
Ivan SeahCenter for Stem Cell Therapeutics and Imaging and.
Melissa ChuaCenter for Stem Cell Therapeutics and Imaging and.
Khalid ShahCenter for Stem Cell Therapeutics and Imaging and.
Brigham and Women's Hospital · USCTI BioPharma (United Kingdom) · GB

Funding

In vivo imaging of the stem cell loaded oncolytic viruses for cancer therapyR01CA204720 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI SHAH, KHALID A · 2016 to 2020
$1.9M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA204720
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oncolytic virotherapy (OVT) is a promising approach in which WT or engineered viruses selectively replicate and destroy tumor cells while sparing normal ones. In the last two decades, different oncolytic viruses (OVs) have been modified and tested in a number of preclinical studies, some of which have led to clinical trials in cancer patients. These clinical trials have revealed several critical limitations with regard to viral delivery, spread, resistance, and antiviral immunity. Here, we focus on promising research strategies that have been developed to overcome the aforementioned obstacles. Such strategies include engineering OVs to target a broad spectrum of tumor cells while evading the immune system, developing unique delivery mechanisms, combining other immunotherapeutic agents with OVT, and using clinically translatable mouse tumor models to potentially translate OVT more readily into clinical settings.

Indexed as

Oncolytic VirotherapyAnimalsHumansMiceNeoplasms, ExperimentalOncolytic Viruses

Identifiers

PMID30829653
PMCPMC6436848
OpenAlexW2919987102

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Registered trials

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