The coming decade in precision oncology: six riddles

A Wahida, L Buschhorn, S Fröhling, PJ Jost… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
High-throughput methods to investigate tumour omic landscapes have quickly catapulted
cancer specialists into the precision oncology era. The singular lesson of precision oncology …

Sex and gender: modifiers of health, disease, and medicine

F Mauvais-Jarvis, NB Merz, PJ Barnes, RD Brinton… - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Clinicians can encounter sex and gender disparities in diagnostic and therapeutic
responses. These disparities are noted in epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical …

Androgen receptor activity in T cells limits checkpoint blockade efficacy

X Guan, F Polesso, C Wang, A Sehrawat, RM Hawkins… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint blockade has revolutionized the field of oncology, inducing durable anti-
tumour immunity in solid tumours. In patients with advanced prostate cancer …

Meta-analysis of tumor-and T cell-intrinsic mechanisms of sensitization to checkpoint inhibition

K Litchfield, JL Reading, C Puttick, K Thakkar… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Checkpoint inhibitors (CPIs) augment adaptive immunity. Systematic pan-tumor analyses
may reveal the relative importance of tumor-cell-intrinsic and microenvironmental features …

Improved prediction of immune checkpoint blockade efficacy across multiple cancer types

D Chowell, SK Yoo, C Valero, A Pastore… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Only a fraction of patients with cancer respond to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB)
treatment, but current decision-making procedures have limited accuracy. In this study, we …

Androgen conspires with the CD8+ T cell exhaustion program and contributes to sex bias in cancer

H Kwon, JM Schafer, NJ Song, S Kaneko, A Li… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Sex bias exists in the development and progression of nonreproductive organ cancers, but
the underlying mechanisms are enigmatic. Studies so far have focused largely on sexual …

The impact of gender on the efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors in cancer patients: the MOUSEION-01 study

M Santoni, A Rizzo, V Mollica, MR Matrana… - Critical Reviews in …, 2022 - Elsevier
The primary endpoint of MOUSEION-01 was to assess overall survival (OS) in male and
female patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors versus control treatments …

The impact of ECOG performance status on efficacy of immunotherapy and immune-based combinations in cancer patients: the MOUSEION-06 study

V Mollica, A Rizzo, A Marchetti, V Tateo… - Clinical and …, 2023 - Springer
ECOG performance status (PS) is a pivotal prognostic factor in a wide number of solid
tumors. We performed a meta-analysis to assess the role of ECOG PS in terms of survival in …

Personalized neoantigen vaccine NEO-PV-01 with chemotherapy and anti-PD-1 as first-line treatment for non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer

MM Awad, R Govindan, KN Balogh, DR Spigel… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Neoantigens arising from mutations in tumor DNA provide targets for immune-based
therapy. Here, we report the clinical and immune data from a Phase Ib clinical trial of a …

Sex and gender analysis improves science and engineering

C Tannenbaum, RP Ellis, F Eyssel, J Zou… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The goal of sex and gender analysis is to promote rigorous, reproducible and responsible
science. Incorporating sex and gender analysis into experimental design has enabled …