Combination strategies with PD-1/PD-L1 blockade: current advances and future directions

M Yi, X Zheng, M Niu, S Zhu, H Ge, K Wu - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Antibodies targeting programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1) or its ligand PD-L1 rescue T
cells from exhausted status and revive immune response against cancer cells. Based on the …

Novel strategies for cancer immunotherapy: counter-immunoediting therapy

S Liu, Q Sun, X Ren - Journal of Hematology & Oncology, 2023 - Springer
The advent of immunotherapy has made an indelible mark on the field of cancer therapy,
especially the application of immune checkpoint inhibitors in clinical practice. Although …

IFN-γ signature enables selection of neoadjuvant treatment in patients with stage III melanoma

ILM Reijers, D Rao, JM Versluis, AM Menzies… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - rupress.org
Neoadjuvant ipilimumab+ nivolumab has demonstrated high pathologic response rates in
stage III melanoma. Patients with low intra-tumoral interferon-γ (IFN-γ) signatures are less …

Histone modifications in drug-resistant cancers: From a cancer stem cell and immune evasion perspective

ML **, KW Jeong - Experimental & Molecular Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
The development and immune evasion of cancer stem cells (CSCs) limit the efficacy of
currently available anticancer therapies. Recent studies have shown that epigenetic …

FGFR inhibition augments anti–PD-1 efficacy in murine FGFR3-mutant bladder cancer by abrogating immunosuppression

A Okato, T Utsumi, M Ranieri, X Zheng… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Am Soc Clin Investig
The combination of targeted therapy with immune checkpoint inhibition (ICI) is an area of
intense interest. We studied the interaction of fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) …

CAR-redirected natural killer T cells demonstrate superior antitumor activity to CAR-T cells through multimodal CD1d-dependent mechanisms

X Zhou, Y Wang, Z Dou, G Delfanti, O Tsahouridis… - Nature Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Human natural killer T (NKT) cells have been proposed as a promising cell platform for
chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapy in solid tumors. Here we generated murine CAR …

Entinostat in combination with nivolumab in metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: a phase 2 clinical trial

M Baretti, L Danilova, JN Durham, CB Betts… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is characterized by low cytotoxic lymphocytes,
abundant immune-suppressive cells, and resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) …

HDAC3 is critical in tumor development and therapeutic resistance in Kras-mutant non–small cell lung cancer

LJ Eichner, SD Curtis, SN Brun, CK McGuire… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
HDAC3 is one of the main targets of histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors in clinical
development as cancer therapies, yet the in vivo role of HDAC3 in solid tumors is unknown …

Immune checkpoint inhibitors in cancer therapy—how to overcome drug resistance?

Y Lao, D Shen, W Zhang, R He, M Jiang - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are an important strategy in cancer
therapy. However, with the widespread clinical use of ICIs, people gradually found that ICIs …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering neoantigen vaccines to improve cancer personalized immunotherapy

Z Liu, J Lv, Q Dang, L Liu, S Weng, L Wang… - … journal of biological …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Immunotherapy treatments harnessing the immune system herald a new era of personalized
medicine, offering considerable benefits for cancer patients. Over the past years, tumor …