Hallmarks of response, resistance, and toxicity to immune checkpoint blockade

G Morad, BA Helmink, P Sharma, JA Wargo - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Unprecedented advances have been made in cancer treatment with the use of immune
checkpoint blockade (ICB). However, responses are limited to a subset of patients, and …

Immune checkpoint inhibitors for the treatment of cancer: clinical impact and mechanisms of response and resistance

S Bagchi, R Yuan, EG Engleman - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have made an indelible mark in the field of cancer
immunotherapy. Starting with the approval of anti-cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated protein …

Combination therapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs); a new frontier

S Vafaei, AO Zekiy, RA Khanamir, BA Zaman… - Cancer Cell …, 2022 - Springer
Recently, immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) therapy has become a promising therapeutic
strategy with encouraging therapeutic outcomes due to their durable anti-tumor effects …

High and low mutational burden tumors versus immunologically hot and cold tumors and response to immune checkpoint inhibitors

S Maleki Vareki - Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2018 - Springer
Tumors responding to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have a higher level of immune
infiltrates and/or an Interferon (IFN) signature indicative of a T-cell-inflamed phenotype …

Diagnosis and treatment of Merkel cell carcinoma: European consensus-based interdisciplinary guideline–Update 2022

ML Gauci, C Aristei, JC Becker, A Blom… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a rare skin cancer, accounting for less than 1% of all
cutaneous malignancies. It is found predominantly in white populations and risk factors …

Durable tumor regression and overall survival in patients with advanced Merkel cell carcinoma receiving pembrolizumab as first-line therapy

P Nghiem, S Bhatia, EJ Lipson… - Journal of Clinical …, 2019 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is an aggressive skin cancer often caused by the
Merkel cell polyomavirus. Clinical trials of programmed cell death-1 pathway inhibitors for …

Efficacy and safety of first-line avelumab treatment in patients with stage IV metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma: a preplanned interim analysis of a clinical trial

SP D'Angelo, J Russell, C Lebbé, B Chmielowski… - JAMA …, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is an aggressive skin cancer that is associated
with poor survival outcomes in patients with distant metastatic disease. Results of part A of …

PD-1 blockade in anaplastic thyroid carcinoma

J Capdevila, LJ Wirth, T Ernst, S Ponce Aix… - Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma is an aggressive malignancy that is almost always
fatal and lacks effective systemic treatment options for patients with BRAF-wild type disease …

The extrinsic and intrinsic roles of PD-L1 and its receptor PD-1: implications for immunotherapy treatment

K Hudson, N Cross, N Jordan-Mahy… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) is an immune checkpoint inhibitor that binds to its
receptor PD-1 expressed by T cells and other immune cells to regulate immune responses; …

Neoadjuvant nivolumab for patients with resectable Merkel cell carcinoma in the CheckMate 358 trial

SL Topalian, S Bhatia, A Amin… - Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a rare, aggressive skin cancer commonly driven
by the Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCPyV). The programmed death-1 (PD-1)/programmed …