The history and advances in cancer immunotherapy: understanding the characteristics of tumor-infiltrating immune cells and their therapeutic implications

Y Zhang, Z Zhang - Cellular & molecular immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatment and rejuvenated the field of tumor
immunology. Several types of immunotherapy, including adoptive cell transfer (ACT) and …

Clinical implications of T cell exhaustion for cancer immunotherapy

A Chow, K Perica, CA Klebanoff… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2022 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has been a remarkable clinical advancement in the treatment of cancer. T
cells are pivotal to the efficacy of current cancer immunotherapies, including immune …

Turning cold tumors hot: from molecular mechanisms to clinical applications

J Zhang, D Huang, PE Saw, E Song - Trends in immunology, 2022 - cell.com
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapies have achieved clinical benefit, but most
'immune-cold'solid tumors are not responsive. The diversity of immune evasion mechanisms …

Top 10 challenges in cancer immunotherapy

PS Hegde, DS Chen - Immunity, 2020 - cell.com
Cancer immunotherapy is a validated and critically important approach for treating patients
with cancer. Given the vast research and clinical investigation efforts dedicated to advancing …

Dynamics and specificities of T cells in cancer immunotherapy

G Oliveira, CJ Wu - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Recent advances in cancer immunotherapy—ranging from immune-checkpoint blockade
therapy to adoptive cellular therapy and vaccines—have revolutionized cancer treatment …

Single-cell analyses reveal key immune cell subsets associated with response to PD-L1 blockade in triple-negative breast cancer

Y Zhang, H Chen, H Mo, X Hu, R Gao, Y Zhao, B Liu… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
In triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), the benefit of combining chemotherapy with
checkpoint inhibitors is still not very clear. We utilize single-cell RNA-and ATAC-sequencing …

Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in the immunotherapy era

ST Paijens, A Vledder, M de Bruyn… - Cellular & molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
The clinical success of cancer immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) has refocused attention
on tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) across cancer types. The outcome of immune …

Molecular signatures of antitumor neoantigen-reactive T cells from metastatic human cancers

FJ Lowery, S Krishna, R Yossef, NB Parikh, PD Chatani… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The accurate identification of antitumor T cell receptors (TCRs) represents a major challenge
for the engineering of cell-based cancer immunotherapies. By map** 55 neoantigen …

Intratumoral dendritic cell–CD4+ T helper cell niches enable CD8+ T cell differentiation following PD-1 blockade in hepatocellular carcinoma

A Magen, P Hamon, N Fiaschi, BY Soong, MD Park… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Despite no apparent defects in T cell priming and recruitment to tumors, a large subset of T
cell rich tumors fail to respond to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB). We leveraged a …

Spatially organized multicellular immune hubs in human colorectal cancer

K Pelka, M Hofree, JH Chen, S Sarkizova, JD Pirl… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Immune responses to cancer are highly variable, with mismatch repair-deficient (MMRd)
tumors exhibiting more anti-tumor immunity than mismatch repair-proficient (MMRp) tumors …