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 …

Treatment landscape of triple-negative breast cancer—expanded options, evolving needs

G Bianchini, C De Angelis, L Licata… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2022 - nature.com
Tumour heterogeneity and a long-standing paucity of effective therapies other than
chemotherapy have contributed to triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) being the subtype …

Overall survival with pembrolizumab in early-stage triple-negative breast cancer

P Schmid, J Cortes, R Dent, H McArthur… - … England Journal of …, 2024 - Mass Medical Soc
Background In patients with early-stage triple-negative breast cancer, the phase 3
KEYNOTE-522 trial showed significant improvements in pathological complete response …

Breast cancer, version 3.2024, NCCN clinical practice guidelines in oncology

WJ Gradishar, MS Moran, J Abraham… - Journal of the National …, 2024 - jnccn.org
Breast cancer is treated with a multidisciplinary approach involving surgical oncology,
radiation oncology, and medical oncology. The NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in …

Event-free survival with pembrolizumab in early triple-negative breast cancer

P Schmid, J Cortes, R Dent, L Pusztai… - … England Journal of …, 2022 - Mass Medical Soc
Background The addition of pembrolizumab to neoadjuvant chemotherapy led to a
significantly higher percentage of patients with early triple-negative breast cancer having a …

Neoadjuvant nivolumab plus chemotherapy in resectable lung cancer

PM Forde, J Spicer, S Lu, M Provencio… - … England Journal of …, 2022 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy confers a modest benefit over surgery
alone for resectable non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In early-phase trials, nivolumab …

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 …

Systemic therapy for hormone receptor‐positive/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2‐negative early stage and metastatic breast cancer

LA Huppert, O Gumusay, D Idossa… - CA: a cancer journal for …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hormone receptor (HR)‐positive and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)‐
negative breast cancer is defined by the presence of the estrogen receptor and/or the …

Spatial predictors of immunotherapy response in triple-negative breast cancer

XQ Wang, E Danenberg, CS Huang, D Egle, M Callari… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) benefits some patients with triple-negative breast
cancer, but what distinguishes responders from non-responders is unclear. Because ICB …

Residual cancer burden after neoadjuvant chemotherapy and long-term survival outcomes in breast cancer: a multicentre pooled analysis of 5161 patients

C Yau, M Osdoit, M van der Noordaa, S Shad… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Previous studies have independently validated the prognostic relevance of
residual cancer burden (RCB) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy. We used results from …