Title:Translational Gap in Glioma Research
VOLUME: 14 ISSUE: 8
Author(s):Chi Ma, Gang Zhao, Mabel Hilda Cruz, Ake Siden and Juan Sebastian Yakisich
Affiliation:Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, S-141 86.
Keywords:Clinical trial, Glioma, phenotype, stem cells, stem cell theory, stemness.
Abstract:During the last five decades, enormous advances in treatment modalities for cancer and a better understanding of cancer cell
biology have been accomplished but the prognosis of patients carrying malignant gliomas still remains poor despite hundreds of clinical
trials have been carried out. In this article we review phase II clinical trials that have been completed and published in PubMed during
2011 in order to investigate potential reasons of clinical failure. We suggest that a translational gap, defined as a failure to translate basic
research into clinical trials design may explain the poor outcome of phase II clinical trials.
