Immune checkpoint therapy—current perspectives and future directions

P Sharma, S Goswami, D Raychaudhuri, BA Siddiqui… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Immune checkpoint therapy (ICT) has dramatically altered clinical outcomes for cancer
patients and conferred durable clinical benefits, including cure in a subset of patients …

Cancer biomarkers: emerging trends and clinical implications for personalized treatment

A Passaro, M Al Bakir, EG Hamilton, M Diehn, F André… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
The integration of cancer biomarkers into oncology has revolutionized cancer treatment,
yielding remarkable advancements in cancer therapeutics and the prognosis of cancer …

Personalized neoantigen vaccine and pembrolizumab in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma: a phase 1/2 trial

M Yarchoan, EJ Gane, TU Marron, R Perales-Linares… - Nature medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) inhibitors have modest efficacy as a monotherapy
in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). A personalized therapeutic cancer vaccine (PTCV) may …

Tracking early lung cancer metastatic dissemination in TRACERx using ctDNA

C Abbosh, AM Frankell, T Harrison, J Kisistok… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) can be used to detect and profile residual tumour cells
persisting after curative intent therapy. The study of large patient cohorts incorporating …

Immune checkpoint blockade in glioblastoma: from tumor heterogeneity to personalized treatment

VA Arrieta, C Dmello, DJ McGrail, DJ Brat… - The Journal of clinical …, 2023 - jci.org
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) has revolutionized modern cancer therapy, arousing
great interest in the neuro-oncology community. While several reports show that subsets of …

PD-1 blockade in mismatch repair–deficient, locally advanced rectal cancer

A Cercek, M Lumish, J Sinopoli, J Weiss… - … England Journal of …, 2022 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Neoadjuvant chemotherapy and radiation followed by surgical resection of the
rectum is a standard treatment for locally advanced rectal cancer. A subset of rectal cancer is …

Tumor microenvironment: barrier or opportunity towards effective cancer therapy

A Tiwari, R Trivedi, SY Lin - Journal of biomedical science, 2022 - Springer
Tumor microenvironment (TME) is a specialized ecosystem of host components, designed
by tumor cells for successful development and metastasis of tumor. With the advent of 3D …

T cell immunotherapies engage neutrophils to eliminate tumor antigen escape variants

D Hirschhorn, S Budhu, L Kraehenbuehl, M Gigoux… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Cancer immunotherapies, including adoptive T cell transfer, can be ineffective because
tumors evolve to display antigen-loss-variant clones. Therapies that activate multiple …

Mismatch repair deficiency is not sufficient to elicit tumor immunogenicity

PMK Westcott, F Muyas, H Hauck, OC Smith… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
DNA mismatch repair deficiency (MMRd) is associated with a high tumor mutational burden
(TMB) and sensitivity to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy. Nevertheless, most …

HPV-associated oropharyngeal cancer: epidemiology, molecular biology and clinical management

M Lechner, J Liu, L Masterson, TR Fenton - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Human papillomavirus (HPV)-positive (HPV+) oropharyngeal squamous cell
carcinoma (OPSCC) has one of the most rapidly increasing incidences of any cancer in high …