Intratumoral heterogeneity in cancer progression and response to immunotherapy

I Vitale, E Shema, S Loi, L Galluzzi - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Most (if not all) tumors emerge and progress under a strong evolutionary pressure imposed
by trophic, metabolic, immunological, and therapeutic factors. The relative impact of these …

[HTML][HTML] EANO guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of diffuse gliomas of adulthood

M Weller, M van den Bent, M Preusser… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2021 - nature.com
In response to major changes in diagnostic algorithms and the publication of mature results
from various large clinical trials, the European Association of Neuro-Oncology (EANO) …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] High tumor mutation burden fails to predict immune checkpoint blockade response across all cancer types

DJ McGrail, PG Pilié, NU Rashid, L Voorwerk… - Annals of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background High tumor mutation burden (TMB-H) has been proposed as a predictive
biomarker for response to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB), largely due to the potential for …

Transcriptome analysis reveals tumor microenvironment changes in glioblastoma

Y Hoogstrate, K Draaisma, SA Ghisai, L van Hijfte… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
A better understanding of transcriptional evolution of IDH-wild-type glioblastoma may be
crucial for treatment optimization. Here, we perform RNA sequencing (RNA-seq)(n= 322 test …

Hypoxic niches attract and sequester tumor-associated macrophages and cytotoxic T cells and reprogram them for immunosuppression

A Sattiraju, S Kang, B Giotti, Z Chen, VJ Marallano… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Glioblastoma (GBM), a highly lethal brain cancer, is notorious for immunosuppression, but
the mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we documented a temporospatial patterning of tumor …

FDA approval summary: pembrolizumab for the treatment of tumor mutational burden–high solid tumors

L Marcus, LA Fashoyin-Aje, M Donoghue, M Yuan… - Clinical Cancer …, 2021 - AACR
The FDA approved pembrolizumab on June 16, 2020, for the treatment of adult and pediatric
patients with unresectable or metastatic tumor mutational burden–high [TMB-H;≥ 10 …

[HTML][HTML] A vaccine targeting mutant IDH1 in newly diagnosed glioma

M Platten, L Bunse, A Wick, T Bunse, L Le Cornet… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Mutated isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) defines a molecularly distinct subtype of
diffuse glioma,–. The most common IDH1 mutation in gliomas affects codon 132 and …

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

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

Targeting the DNA damage response in immuno-oncology: developments and opportunities

RM Chabanon, M Rouanne, CJ Lord, JC Soria… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatment and substantially improved patient
outcome with regard to multiple tumour types. However, most patients still do not benefit …