Improving head and neck cancer therapies by immunomodulation of the tumour microenvironment

AT Ruffin, H Li, L Vujanovic, DP Zandberg… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Targeted immunotherapy has improved patient survival in head and neck squamous cell
carcinoma (HNSCC), but less than 20% of patients produce a durable response to these …

B cell function in the tumor microenvironment

SM Downs-Canner, J Meier, BG Vincent… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The tumor microenvironment (TME) is a heterogeneous, complex organization composed of
tumor, stroma, and endothelial cells that is characterized by cross talk between tumor and …

Functional Th1-oriented T follicular helper cells that infiltrate human breast cancer promote effective adaptive immunity

G Noël, ML Fontsa, S Garaud… - The Journal of …, 2021 - Am Soc Clin Investig
We previously demonstrated that tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) in human breast cancer
sometimes form organized tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS) characterized by CXCL13 …

[HTML][HTML] Role of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes and spatial immune heterogeneity in sensitivity to PD-1 axis blockers in non-small cell lung cancer

ML de Rodas, V Nagineni, A Ravi, IJ Datar… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) reflect adaptive antitumor immune
responses in cancer and are generally associated with favorable prognosis. However, the …

Progenitor-like exhausted SPRY1+ CD8+ T cells potentiate responsiveness to neoadjuvant PD-1 blockade in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Z Liu, Y Zhang, N Ma, Y Yang, Y Ma, F Wang, Y Wang… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Neoadjuvant immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) demonstrates promise in operable
esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), but lacks available efficacy biomarkers …

Spatial transcriptomics technology in cancer research

Q Yu, M Jiang, L Wu - Frontiers in Oncology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, spatial transcriptomics (ST) technologies have developed rapidly and have
been widely used in constructing spatial tissue atlases and characterizing spatiotemporal …

Nanovaccines fostering tertiary lymphoid structure to attack mimicry nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Z Wen, H Liu, D Qiao, H Chen, L Li, Z Yang, C Zhu… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Tertiary lymphoid structures (TLSs) are formed in inflamed tissues, and recent studies
demonstrated that the appearance of TLSs in tumor sites is associated with a good …

The presence of tertiary lymphoid structures provides new insight into the clinicopathological features and prognosis of patients with breast cancer

B Wang, J Liu, Y Han, Y Deng, J Li, Y Jiang - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Tertiary lymphoid structures (TLSs) have been proven to be predictive
biomarkers of favorable clinical outcomes and response to immunotherapies in several solid …

Activation of B cells in Tertiary Lymphoid Structures in cancer: Anti-tumor or anti-self?

WH Fridman, S Sibéril, G Pupier, S Soussan… - Seminars in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Whereas T cells in the tumor microenvironment have been the main focus as cancer
controlling cells and targets of immunotherapies, B cells have recently gained strong …

Germinal center-dependent and-independent immune responses of tumor-infiltrating B cells in human cancers

E Playoust, R Remark, E Vivier, P Milpied - Cellular & Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
B cells play essential roles in immunity, mainly through the production of high affinity plasma
cells (PCs) and memory B (Bmem) cells. The affinity maturation and differentiation of B cells …