2022
Efficacy of laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) for newly diagnosed and recurrent IDH wild-type glioblastoma
de Groot JF, Kim AH, Prabhu S, Rao G, Laxton AW, Fecci PE, O’Brien B, Sloan A, Chiang V, Tatter SB, Mohammadi AM, Placantonakis DG, Strowd RE, Chen C, Hadjipanayis C, Khasraw M, Sun D, Piccioni D, Sinicrope KD, Campian JL, Kurz SC, Williams B, Smith K, Tovar-Spinoza Z, Leuthardt EC. Efficacy of laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) for newly diagnosed and recurrent IDH wild-type glioblastoma. Neuro-Oncology Advances 2022, 4: vdac040. PMID: 35611270, PMCID: PMC9122789, DOI: 10.1093/noajnl/vdac040.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMedian overall survivalLaser interstitial thermal therapyOverall survivalRecurrent patientsWild-type glioblastomaRecurrent glioblastomaGlioblastoma patientsProspective multicenter registry dataMulticenter registry dataRecurrent glioblastoma patientsChemo/radiationPrimary brain tumorsInterstitial thermal therapyIDH wild-type glioblastomaAdjuvant chemotherapyAdverse eventsImproved survivalClinical outcomesPromoter methylation statusMultivariable differenceSurgical approachTreatment optionsRegistry dataUS CentersTumor volume
2020
Dissecting the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironments in Glioblastoma-on-a-Chip for optimized PD-1 immunotherapy
Cui X, Ma C, Vasudevaraja V, Serrano J, Tong J, Peng Y, Delorenzo M, Shen G, Frenster J, Morales R, Qian W, Tsirigos A, Chi A, Jain R, Kurz S, Sulman E, Placantonakis D, Snuderl M, Chen W. Dissecting the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironments in Glioblastoma-on-a-Chip for optimized PD-1 immunotherapy. ELife 2020, 9: e52253. PMID: 32909947, PMCID: PMC7556869, DOI: 10.7554/elife.52253.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsProgrammed cell death protein 1Immunosuppressive tumor microenvironmentTumor-associated macrophagesTumor microenvironmentCD163+ tumor-associated macrophagesPD-1/PD-L1 immune checkpointCSF-1R inhibitor BLZ945Molecularly distinct GBM subtypesCell death protein 1Anti-PD-1 immunotherapyT cell functionNivolumab efficacyImmunotherapy efficacyImmune checkpointsImmune signaturesImmunosuppressive mechanismsT cellsM2-TAMsCo-administeredGlioblastoma patientsIL-10CSF-1RCSF-1ImmunotherapyProneural glioblastoma
2019
Plasma cell-free circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) detection in longitudinally followed glioblastoma patients using TERT promoter mutation-specific droplet digital PCR assays.
Cordova C, Syeda M, Corless B, Wiggins J, Patel A, Kurz S, Delara M, Sawaged Z, Utate M, Placantonakis D, Golfinos J, Schafrick J, Silverman J, Jain R, Snuderl M, Zagzag D, Shao Y, Karlin-Neumann G, Polsky D, Chi A. Plasma cell-free circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) detection in longitudinally followed glioblastoma patients using TERT promoter mutation-specific droplet digital PCR assays. Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2019, 37: 2026-2026. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2019.37.15_suppl.2026.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCell-free circulating tumor DNADroplet digital PCR assayDroplet digital PCRCtDNA levelsTERT mutationsPharmacodynamic biomarkersPlasma cell-free circulating tumor DNATERT promoter hotspot mutationsTERT promoter mutationsPromoter hotspot mutationsFFPE tumor samplesUnresected glioblastomaC228TPreoperative MRIIDH-wildtypeTumor DNADigital PCR assayIDHwt glioblastomasClinical stabilityTumor mutationsClinical outcomesClinical associationsGlioblastoma patientsHotspot mutationsTumor samplesLonger Median Overall Survival in Glioblastoma Patients from Racial and Ethnical Minority Groups (S30.007)
Yu S, Patel A, Crispino S, Utate M, Kurz S. Longer Median Overall Survival in Glioblastoma Patients from Racial and Ethnical Minority Groups (S30.007). Neurology 2019, 92 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.92.15_supplement.s30.007.Peer-Reviewed Original Research