Immune checkpoint inhibitors in cancer therapy

Y Shiravand, F Khodadadi, SMA Kashani… - Current …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The discovery of immune checkpoint proteins such as PD-1/PDL-1 and CTLA-4 represents a
significant breakthrough in the field of cancer immunotherapy. Therefore, humanized …

Neoadjuvant immune checkpoint blockade: a window of opportunity to advance cancer immunotherapy

SL Topalian, PM Forde, LA Emens, M Yarchoan… - Cancer cell, 2023 - cell.com
Among new treatment approaches for patients with cancer, few have accelerated as quickly
as neoadjuvant immune checkpoint blockade (ICB). Neoadjuvant cancer therapy is …

[HTML][HTML] Neoadjuvant cemiplimab for stage II to IV cutaneous squamous-cell carcinoma

ND Gross, DM Miller, NI Khushalani… - … England Journal of …, 2022 - Mass Medical Soc
Background In a pilot study involving patients with cutaneous squamous-cell carcinoma, a
high percentage of patients had a pathological complete response with the use of two doses …

Cemiplimab plus chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone in non-small cell lung cancer: a randomized, controlled, double-blind phase 3 trial

M Gogishvili, T Melkadze, T Makharadze… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
First-line cemiplimab (anti-programmed cell death-1 (PD-1)) monotherapy has previously
shown significant improvement in overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) …

Tumor immunotherapies by immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs); the pros and cons

A Naimi, RN Mohammed, A Raji, S Chupradit… - Cell communication and …, 2022 - Springer
The main breakthrough in tumor immunotherapy was the discovery of immune checkpoint
(IC) proteins, which act as a potent suppressor of the immune system by a myriad of …

Small-molecule inhibitors, immune checkpoint inhibitors, and more: FDA-approved novel therapeutic drugs for solid tumors from 1991 to 2021

Q Wu, W Qian, X Sun, S Jiang - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) has always been a
forerunner in drug evaluation and supervision. Over the past 31 years, 1050 drugs …

Cemiplimab monotherapy for first-line treatment of advanced non-small-cell lung cancer with PD-L1 of at least 50%: a multicentre, open-label, global, phase 3 …

A Sezer, S Kilickap, M Gümüş, I Bondarenko… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background We aimed to examine cemiplimab, a programmed cell death 1 inhibitor, in the
first-line treatment of advanced non-small-cell lung cancer with programmed cell death …

Cancer immunotherapy update: FDA-approved checkpoint inhibitors and companion diagnostics

JD Twomey, B Zhang - The AAPS journal, 2021 - Springer
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are considered a new standard-of-care across many
cancer indications. This review provides an update on ICIs approved by the Food and Drug …

[HTML][HTML] Multimodal analysis of composition and spatial architecture in human squamous cell carcinoma

AL Ji, AJ Rubin, K Thrane, S Jiang, DL Reynolds… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
To define the cellular composition and architecture of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma
(cSCC), we combined single-cell RNA sequencing with spatial transcriptomics and …

Targeting cancer stem cell pathways for cancer therapy

L Yang, P Shi, G Zhao, J Xu, W Peng, J Zhang… - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Since cancer stem cells (CSCs) were first identified in leukemia in 1994, they have been
considered promising therapeutic targets for cancer therapy. These cells have self-renewal …