Combination therapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs); a new frontier

S Vafaei, AO Zekiy, RA Khanamir, BA Zaman… - Cancer Cell …, 2022 - Springer
Recently, immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) therapy has become a promising therapeutic
strategy with encouraging therapeutic outcomes due to their durable anti-tumor effects …

[HTML][HTML] Combined photodynamic and photothermal therapy and immunotherapy for cancer treatment: a review

C Kong, X Chen - International journal of nanomedicine, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Photoactivation therapy based on photodynamic therapy (PDT) and photothermal therapy
(PTT) has been identified as a tumour ablation modality for numerous cancer indications …

[HTML][HTML] How to improve photodynamic therapy-induced antitumor immunity for cancer treatment?

M Zhang, Y Zhao, H Ma, Y Sun, J Cao - Theranostics, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a promising method of tumor ablation and function-
preserving oncological intervention, which is minimally invasive, repeatable, and has …

Near‐Infrared Nano‐Optogenetic Activation of Cancer Immunotherapy via Engineered Bacteria

X Zhu, S Chen, X Hu, L Zhao, Y Wang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Certain anaerobic microbes with the capability to colonize the tumor microenvironment tend
to express the heterologous gene in a sustainable manner, which will inevitably compromise …

Current limitations and recent progress in nanomedicine for clinically available photodynamic therapy

J Park, YK Lee, IK Park, SR Hwang - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) using oxygen, light, and photosensitizers has been receiving
great attention, because it has potential for making up for the weakness of the existing …

Combination of phototherapy with immune checkpoint blockade: Theory and practice in cancer

Y Zhao, X Liu, X Liu, J Yu, X Bai, X Wu, X Guo… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy has evolved as a revolutionized therapeutic
modality to eradicate tumor cells by releasing the brake of the antitumor immune response …

[HTML][HTML] The critical role of Toll-like receptor-mediated signaling in cancer immunotherapy

X Chen, Y Zhang, Y Fu - Medicine in Drug Discovery, 2022 - Elsevier
Toll-like receptors (TLR) play a dual regulatory role in the tumor microenvironment (TME).
TLR agonists (TLRa) elicit both innate and adaptive immune responses to achieve anti …

Nanomaterials-based photodynamic therapy with combined treatment improves antitumor efficacy through boosting immunogenic cell death

F **, D Liu, X Xu, J Ji, Y Du - International journal of nanomedicine, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Benefiting from the rapid development of nanotechnology, photodynamic therapy (PDT) is
arising as a novel non-invasive clinical treatment for specific cancers, which exerts direct …

Quickly evolving near‐infrared photoimmunotherapy provides multifaceted approach to modern cancer treatment

H Monaco, S Yokomizo, HS Choi, S Kashiwagi - View, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Among modalities of cancer immunotherapy, near‐infrared photoimmunotherapy (NIR‐PIT)
has reached significant preclinical and clinical stages and quickly evolved over the last 5 …

Combinatorial therapeutic approaches with nanomaterial-based photodynamic cancer therapy

Y Hao, CK Chung, Z Yu, RV Huis in 't Veld… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Photodynamic therapy (PDT), in which a light source is used in combination with a
photosensitizer to induce local cell death, has shown great promise in therapeutically …