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ReviewJournal of translational medicine2024

The tumour microenvironment, treatment resistance and recurrence in glioblastoma.

Jasmine White, Madeleine P J White, Agadha Wickremesekera, Lifeng Peng, Clint Gray

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Review in Journal of translational medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 70 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

70 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

5 authors.

Jasmine WhiteGillies McIndoe Research Institute, Newtown, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand.
Madeleine P J WhiteGillies McIndoe Research Institute, Newtown, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand.
Agadha WickremesekeraGillies McIndoe Research Institute, Newtown, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand.
Lifeng PengCentre for Biodiscovery and School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand. lifeng.peng@vuw.ac.nz.
Clint GrayGillies McIndoe Research Institute, Newtown, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand. clint.gray@gmri.org.nz.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The adaptability of glioblastoma (GBM) cells, encouraged by complex interactions with the tumour microenvironment (TME), currently renders GBM an incurable cancer. Despite intensive research, with many clinical trials, GBM patients rely on standard treatments including surgery followed by radiation and chemotherapy, which have been observed to induce a more aggressive phenotype in recurrent tumours. This failure to improve treatments is undoubtedly a result of insufficient models which fail to incorporate components of the human brain TME. Research has increasingly uncovered mechanisms of tumour-TME interactions that correlate to worsened patient prognoses, including tumour-associated astrocyte mitochondrial transfer, neuronal circuit remodelling and immunosuppression. This tumour hijacked TME is highly implicated in driving therapy resistance, with further alterations within the TME and tumour resulting from therapy exposure inducing increased tumour growth and invasion. Recent developments improving organoid models, including aspects of the TME, are paving an exciting future for the research and drug development for GBM, with the hopes of improving patient survival growing closer. This review focuses on GBMs interactions with the TME and their effect on tumour pathology and treatment efficiency, with a look at challenges GBM models face in sufficiently recapitulating this complex and highly adaptive cancer.

Indexed as

Brain NeoplasmsDrug Resistance, NeoplasmGlioblastomaNeoplasm Recurrence, LocalTumor MicroenvironmentAnimalsHumans

Identifiers

PMID38844944
PMCPMC11155041

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