ReviewNeuro-oncology2025
A hitchhiker's guide to cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for neuro-oncology.
Review in Neuro-oncology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 12 papers.
What it found
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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.
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.
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Early experience with cerebrospinal fluid cell-free DNA molecular profiling in a neuro-oncology practice.Journal of neuro-oncology · 2026Article
- Accelerating discovery: Transformative clinical trial models in neuro-oncology.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2026Review
- Cerebrospinal Fluid in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology: Molecular Diagnosis, Disease Monitoring, and Clinical Translation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Review
- Comparative evaluation of analytical methods for CSF proteomics.Clinical proteomics · 2025Article
- Review
- Immunotherapy for High-Grade Gliomas.Cancers · 2025Review
- Context-specific targeting of focal adhesion kinase in brain tumors: lessons from glioblastoma and neurofibromatosis type 2-mutant meningioma.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Review
- The immune landscape of cerebrospinal fluid across brain malignancies.Neuro-oncology advancesReview
- Diagnosis and treatment decision of an IDH-mutant glioma through CSF-based cfDNA sequencing.Neuro-oncology advancesArticle
- Cerebrospinal fluid cell-free DNA as a liquid biopsy tool for detecting and monitoring genomic alterations in thalamic colorectal cancer metastases.Neuro-oncology advancesArticle
- Integrated detection of cerebrospinal fluid cfDNA/cfRNA and molecular concordance with glioma characteristics.Neuro-oncology advancesArticle
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
Authors and funding
19 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has emerged as a valuable liquid biopsy source for glioma biomarker discovery and validation. CSF produced within the ventricles circulates through the subarachnoid space, where the composition of glioma-derived analytes is influenced by the proximity and anatomical location of sampling relative to tumor, in addition to underlying tumor biology. The substantial gradients observed between lumbar and intracranial CSF compartments for tumor-derived analytes underscore the importance of sampling site selection. Moreover, radiographic features, such as tumor-CSF contact and blood-brain barrier disruption, are critical covariates that may affect biomarker detection and the abundance of plasma-derived analytes in CSF, respectively. Longitudinal intracranial CSF sampling, enabled by access devices like Ommaya reservoirs, may offer a window into treatment response and disease progression, though variability in analyte yield, sample volumes, and the dynamic effects of surgical resection pose challenges. This review critically evaluates the anatomic, radiographic, and longitudinal factors, or "time-space continuum," that impact glioma CSF biomarker abundance. Practical considerations for longitudinal CSF biobanking, including access device placement and collection, are also reviewed. Key takeaways and recommendations for CSF glioma biomarker discovery and validation are provided as a "hitchhiker's guide" based on our collective experience, along with resources for investigators aiming to develop CSF biobanking at their institutions.
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