Turning cold tumors hot: from molecular mechanisms to clinical applications

J Zhang, D Huang, PE Saw, E Song - Trends in immunology, 2022 - cell.com
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapies have achieved clinical benefit, but most
'immune-cold'solid tumors are not responsive. The diversity of immune evasion mechanisms …

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 …

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 …

A decade of checkpoint blockade immunotherapy in melanoma: understanding the molecular basis for immune sensitivity and resistance

AC Huang, R Zappasodi - Nature immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Ten years since the immune checkpoint inhibitor ipilimumab was approved for advanced
melanoma, it is time to reflect on the lessons learned regarding modulation of the immune …

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 …

Personalized response-directed surgery and adjuvant therapy after neoadjuvant ipilimumab and nivolumab in high-risk stage III melanoma: the PRADO trial

ILM Reijers, AM Menzies, ACJ Van Akkooi… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Neoadjuvant ipilimumab and nivolumab induces high pathologic response rates (pRRs) in
clinical stage III nodal melanoma, and pathologic response is strongly associated with …

The foundations of immune checkpoint blockade and the ipilimumab approval decennial

AJ Korman, SC Garrett-Thomson… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer immunity, and the potential for cancer immunotherapy, have been topics of scientific
discussion and experimentation for over a hundred years. Several successful cancer …

Diet-driven microbial ecology underpins associations between cancer immunotherapy outcomes and the gut microbiome

RC Simpson, ER Shanahan, M Batten, ILM Reijers… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
The gut microbiota shapes the response to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in cancer,
however dietary and geographic influences have not been well-studied in prospective trials …

Cancer vaccines: Building a bridge over troubled waters

MLC Sellars, CJ Wu, EF Fritsch - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Cancer vaccines aim to direct the immune system to eradicate cancer cells. Here we review
the essential immunologic concepts underpinning natural immunity and highlight the …

Immunosurveillance in clinical cancer management

G Kroemer, TA Chan, AMM Eggermont… - CA: A Cancer Journal …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The progression of cancer involves a critical step in which malignant cells escape from
control by the immune system. Antineoplastic agents are particularly efficient when they …