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Glioblastoma multiforme: State of the art and future therapeutics

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Treatment of Glioblastoma multiforme remains extremely challenging, and continued research and development of targeted therapies, based on a detailed understanding of molecular pathogenesis can reasonably be expected to yield improved outcomes for patients with GBM.
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Background: Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and lethal primary malignancy of the central nervous system (CNS). Despite the proven benefit of surgical resection and aggressive treatment with chemo- and radiotherapy, the prognosis remains very poor. Recent advances of our understanding of the biology and pathophysiology of GBM have allowed the development of a wide array of novel therapeutic approaches, which have been developed. These novel approaches include molecularly targeted therapies, immunotherapies, and gene therapy.

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Glioblastoma: Overview of Disease and Treatment.

TL;DR: Despite aggressive resection and combined modality adjuvant treatment, most GBMs recur and innovative treatments, such as TTFields, drugs to target molecular receptors, and immunotherapy, are promising new options.
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Glioblastoma multiforme: Pathogenesis and treatment

TL;DR: Up-to-date information on MGs treatment including current approaches, novel drug-delivering strategies, molecular targeted agents and immunomodulative treatments are reviewed, and future treatment perspectives are discussed.
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Survival in glioblastoma: a review on the impact of treatment modalities.

TL;DR: Recurrent tumors can be offered re-intervention, participation in clinical trials, anti-angiogenic agent or local electric field therapy, without an evident impact on survival, while molecular-targeted therapies, immunotherapy and gene therapy are promising tools currently under research.
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Epidemiology and Outcome of Glioblastoma

TL;DR: The future of the epidemiology of GBM will depend on multicenter studies generating large clinical data sets of genomic data potentially leading to further understanding of the roles of genes and environment in the development of this devastating disease.
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A PEGylation-Free Biomimetic Porphyrin Nanoplatform for Personalized Cancer Theranostics.

TL;DR: PLP offers a biomimetic theranostic nanoplatform for pretreatment stratification using PET and NIR fluorescence imaging and for further customized cancer management via imaging-guided surgery, PDT, or/and potential chemotherapy.
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The biology of VEGF and its receptors.

TL;DR: Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a key regulator of physiological angiogenesis during embryogenesis, skeletal growth and reproductive functions and is implicated in pathologicalAngiogenesis associated with tumors, intraocular neovascular disorders and other conditions.
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Identification of human brain tumour initiating cells

TL;DR: The development of a xenograft assay that identified human brain tumour initiating cells that initiate tumours in vivo gives strong support for the CSC hypothesis as the basis for many solid tumours, and establishes a previously unidentified cellular target for more effective cancer therapies.
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Comprehensive genomic characterization defines human glioblastoma genes and core pathways

Roger E. McLendon, +233 more
- 23 Oct 2008 - 
TL;DR: The interim integrative analysis of DNA copy number, gene expression and DNA methylation aberrations in 206 glioblastomas reveals a link between MGMT promoter methylation and a hypermutator phenotype consequent to mismatch repair deficiency in treated gliobeasts, demonstrating that it can rapidly expand knowledge of the molecular basis of cancer.
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