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 …

Mechanisms driving the immunoregulatory function of cancer cells

A van Weverwijk, KE de Visser - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Tumours display an astonishing variation in the spatial distribution, composition and
activation state of immune cells, which impacts their progression and response to …

Overall survival with adjuvant pembrolizumab in renal-cell carcinoma

TK Choueiri, P Tomczak, SH Park… - … England Journal of …, 2024 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Adjuvant pembrolizumab therapy after surgery for renal-cell carcinoma was
approved on the basis of a significant improvement in disease-free survival in the KEYNOTE …

Individualised neoantigen therapy mRNA-4157 (V940) plus pembrolizumab versus pembrolizumab monotherapy in resected melanoma (KEYNOTE-942): a …

JS Weber, MS Carlino, A Khattak, T Meniawy… - The Lancet, 2024 - thelancet.com
Background Checkpoint inhibitors are standard adjuvant treatment for stage IIB–IV resected
melanoma, but many patients recur. Our study aimed to evaluate whether mRNA-4157 …

Pembrolizumab versus placebo as adjuvant therapy for completely resected stage IB–IIIA non-small-cell lung cancer (PEARLS/KEYNOTE-091): an interim analysis of …

M O'Brien, L Paz-Ares, S Marreaud, U Dafni… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Pembrolizumab is a standard-of-care for advanced non-small-cell lung cancer
(NSCLC). We assessed pembrolizumab as adjuvant therapy for completely resected stage …

[HTML][HTML] Neoadjuvant–adjuvant or adjuvant-only pembrolizumab in advanced melanoma

SP Patel, M Othus, Y Chen, GP Wright Jr… - … England Journal of …, 2023 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Whether pembrolizumab given both before surgery (neoadjuvant therapy) and
after surgery (adjuvant therapy), as compared with pembrolizumab given as adjuvant …

Neoadjuvant nivolumab and ipilimumab in resectable stage III melanoma

CU Blank, MW Lucas, RA Scolyer… - The New England …, 2024 - research.rug.nl
BACKGROUND: Phase 1-2 trials involving patients with resectable, macroscopic stage III
melanoma have shown that neoadjuvant immunotherapy is more efficacious than adjuvant …

Neoadjuvant relatlimab and nivolumab in resectable melanoma

RN Amaria, M Postow, EM Burton, MT Tetzlaff, MI Ross… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Relatlimab and nivolumab combination immunotherapy improves progression-free survival
over nivolumab monotherapy in patients with unresectable advanced melanoma. We …

Immunotherapy combination approaches: mechanisms, biomarkers and clinical observations

LH Butterfield, YG Najjar - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2024 - nature.com
The approval of the first immune checkpoint inhibitors provided a paradigm shift for the
treatment of malignancies across a broad range of indications. Whereas initially, single …

Adjuvant nivolumab in resected stage IIB/C melanoma: primary results from the randomized, phase 3 CheckMate 76K trial

JM Kirkwood, M Del Vecchio, J Weber, C Hoeller… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Patients with resected stage IIB/C melanoma have high recurrence risk, similar to those with
resected stage IIIA/B disease. The phase 3, double-blind CheckMate 76K trial assessed 790 …