Targeting HER2-positive breast cancer: advances and future directions

SM Swain, M Shastry, E Hamilton - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2023 - nature.com
The long-sought discovery of HER2 as an actionable and highly sensitive therapeutic target
was a major breakthrough for the treatment of highly aggressive HER2-positive breast …

Hypoxic microenvironment in cancer: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic interventions

Z Chen, F Han, Y Du, H Shi, W Zhou - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2023 - nature.com
Having a hypoxic microenvironment is a common and salient feature of most solid tumors.
Hypoxia has a profound effect on the biological behavior and malignant phenotype of …

Harnessing innate immunity in cancer therapy

O Demaria, S Cornen, M Daëron, Y Morel, R Medzhitov… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
New therapies that promote antitumour immunity have been recently developed. Most of
these immunomodulatory approaches have focused on enhancing T-cell responses, either …

Bispecific antibodies: a mechanistic review of the pipeline

AF Labrijn, ML Janmaat, JM Reichert… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2019 - nature.com
The term bispecific antibody (bsAb) is used to describe a large family of molecules designed
to recognize two different epitopes or antigens. BsAbs come in many formats, ranging from …

Harnessing natural killer cells for cancer immunotherapy: dispatching the first responders

NA Maskalenko, D Zhigarev… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells have crucial roles in the innate immunosurveillance of cancer and
viral infections. They are 'first responders' that can spontaneously recognize abnormal cells …

Influence of the tumor microenvironment on NK cell function in solid tumors

O Melaiu, V Lucarini, L Cifaldi, D Fruci - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Natural killer (NK) cells are a population of innate lymphoid cells playing a pivotal role in
host immune responses against infection and tumor growth. These cells have a powerful …

Multifunctional natural killer cell engagers targeting NKp46 trigger protective tumor immunity

L Gauthier, A Morel, N Anceriz, B Rossi… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Over the last decade, various new therapies have been developed to promote anti-tumor
immunity. Despite interesting clinical results in hematological malignancies, the …

γδ T cells: pleiotropic immune effectors with therapeutic potential in cancer

B Silva-Santos, S Mensurado, SB Coffelt - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
The potential of cancer immunotherapy relies on the mobilization of immune cells capable of
producing antitumour cytokines and effectively killing tumour cells. These are major …

Emerging targeted therapies for HER2-positive breast cancer

MF Mercogliano, S Bruni, FL Mauro, R Schillaci - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary HER2-positive breast cancer (BC), which accounts for~ 20% of BC, is one
of the more aggressive and has the worst overall survival rate among them. These patients …

Natural killer cell engagers in cancer immunotherapy: next generation of immuno‐oncology treatments

O Demaria, L Gauthier, G Debroas… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Immuno‐oncology is revolutionizing the treatment of cancers, by inducing the recognition
and elimination of tumor cells by the immune system. Recent advances have focused on …