Tumor-infiltrating regulatory T cells as targets of cancer immunotherapy

C Tay, A Tanaka, S Sakaguchi - Cancer cell, 2023 - cell.com
Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are abundant in tumor tissues, raising a question of whether
immunosuppressive tumor-infiltrating Tregs (TI-Tregs) can be selectively depleted or …

Immune checkpoint therapy for solid tumours: clinical dilemmas and future trends

Q Sun, Z Hong, C Zhang, L Wang, Z Han… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICBs), in addition to targeting CTLA-4, PD-1, and PD-
L1, novel targeting LAG-3 drugs have also been approved in clinical application. With the …

Nucleotide metabolism: a pan-cancer metabolic dependency

NJ Mullen, PK Singh - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Metabolic alterations are a key hallmark of cancer cells, and the augmented synthesis and
use of nucleotide triphosphates is a critical and universal metabolic dependency of cancer …

Natural killer cells in antitumour adoptive cell immunotherapy

TJ Laskowski, A Biederstädt, K Rezvani - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells comprise a unique population of innate lymphoid cells endowed with
intrinsic abilities to identify and eliminate virally infected cells and tumour cells. Possessing …

CD39/CD73/A2AR pathway and cancer immunotherapy

C **a, S Yin, KKW To, L Fu - Molecular cancer, 2023 - Springer
Cancer development is closely associated with immunosuppressive tumor
microenvironment (TME) that attenuates antitumor immune responses and promotes tumor …

Myeloid-derived suppressor cells as immunosuppressive regulators and therapeutic targets in cancer

K Li, H Shi, B Zhang, X Ou, Q Ma, Y Chen… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) are a heterogenic population of immature
myeloid cells with immunosuppressive effects, which undergo massive expansion during …

The great immune escape: understanding the divergent immune response in breast cancer subtypes

SS Onkar, NM Carleton, PC Lucas, TC Bruno… - Cancer …, 2023 - aacrjournals.org
Breast cancer, the most common type of cancer affecting women, encompasses a collection
of histologic (mainly ductal and lobular) and molecular subtypes exhibiting diverse clinical …

The tumour microenvironment in pancreatic cancer—clinical challenges and opportunities

WJ Ho, EM Jaffee, L Zheng - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2020 - nature.com
Metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the most lethal solid tumours
despite the use of multi-agent conventional chemotherapy regimens. Such poor outcomes …

Metabolism of immune cells in cancer

RD Leone, JD Powell - Nature reviews cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Through the successes of checkpoint blockade and adoptive cellular therapy,
immunotherapy has become an established treatment modality for cancer. Cellular …

Triple-negative breast cancer therapy: Current and future perspectives

KA Won, C Spruck - International journal of oncology, 2020 - spandidos-publications.com
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) accounts for 10-15% of all breast cancer cases.
TNBCs lack estrogen and progesterone receptors and express low levels of HER2, and …