Towards targeting the breast cancer immune microenvironment

MA Harris, P Savas, B Virassamy… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The tumour immune microenvironment is shaped by the crosstalk between cancer cells,
immune cells, fibroblasts, endothelial cells and other stromal components. Although the …

From virtual patients to digital twins in immuno-oncology: lessons learned from mechanistic quantitative systems pharmacology modeling

H Wang, T Arulraj, A Ippolito, AS Popel - NPJ Digital Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Virtual patients and digital patients/twins are two similar concepts gaining increasing
attention in health care with goals to accelerate drug development and improve patients' …

Harnessing immunotherapy for brain metastases: insights into tumor–brain microenvironment interactions and emerging treatment modalities

D Zhou, Z Gong, D Wu, C Ma, L Hou, X Niu… - Journal of Hematology & …, 2023 - Springer
Brain metastases signify a deleterious milestone in the progression of several advanced
cancers, predominantly originating from lung, breast and melanoma malignancies, with a …

High B7-H3 expression with low PD-L1 expression identifies armored-cold tumors in triple-negative breast cancer

J Mei, Y Cai, H Zhu, Y Jiang, Z Fu, J Xu, L Chen… - NPJ Breast …, 2024 - nature.com
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is generally regarded as the most aggressive subtype
among breast cancers, but exhibits higher chemotherapeutic and immunotherapeutic …

Loss of tumor suppressors promotes inflammatory tumor microenvironment and enhances LAG3+ T cell mediated immune suppression

S Zahraeifard, Z **ao, JY So, A Ahad… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Low response rate, treatment relapse, and resistance remain key challenges for cancer
treatment with immune checkpoint blockade (ICB). Here we report that loss of specific tumor …

Regulation of dormancy during tumor dissemination: the role of the ECM

A Mukherjee, JJ Bravo-Cordero - Cancer and Metastasis Reviews, 2023 - Springer
The study of the metastatic cascade has revealed the complexity of the process and the
multiple cellular states that disseminated cancer cells must go through. The tumor …

Astrocyte-induced Cdk5 expedites breast cancer brain metastasis by suppressing MHC-I expression to evade immune recognition

AE Yuzhalin, FJ Lowery, Y Saito, X Yuan, J Yao… - Nature cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Brain metastases (BrMs) evade the immune response to develop in the brain, yet the
mechanisms of BrM immune evasion remains unclear. This study shows that brain …

NKG2A is a therapeutic vulnerability in immunotherapy resistant MHC-I heterogeneous triple-negative breast cancer

BC Taylor, X Sun, PI Gonzalez-Ericsson… - Cancer …, 2024 - aacrjournals.org
Despite the success of immune checkpoint inhibition (ICI) in treating cancer, patients with
triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) often develop resistance to therapy, and the underlying …

Immunotherapy in early-stage triple-negative breast cancer: where are we now and where are we headed?

J Dixon-Douglas, S Loi - Current treatment options in oncology, 2023 - Springer
Opinion statement Recently, the addition of PD-1 pathway targeting immune checkpoint
inhibitors (ICI) to standard neoadjuvant chemotherapy for early-stage triple-negative breast …

Global post-mortem tissue donation programmes to accelerate cancer research

C Desmedt, LA Carey - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Metastatic cancer represents the main cause of death in patients with cancer. However,
basic and translational research is hampered by the limited availability of metastatic …