Immune checkpoint inhibitors in hepatocellular cancer: current understanding on mechanisms of resistance and biomarkers of response to treatment

AE Onuma, H Zhang, H Huang, TM Williams… - Gene …, 2020‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary liver malignancy worldwide
and a leading cause of death worldwide. Its incidence continues to increase in the US due to …

Oncolytic viruses combined with immune checkpoint therapy for colorectal cancer is a promising treatment option

Y Ren, JM Miao, YY Wang, Z Fan, XB Kong… - Frontiers in …, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Immunotherapy is one of the promising strategies in the treatment of oncology. Immune
checkpoint inhibitors, as a type of immunotherapy, have no significant efficacy in the clinical …

Temozolomide treatment alters mismatch repair and boosts mutational burden in tumor and blood of colorectal cancer patients

G Crisafulli, A Sartore-Bianchi, L Lazzari… - Cancer …, 2022‏ - aacrjournals.org
The majority of metastatic colorectal cancers (mCRC) are mismatch repair (MMR) proficient
and unresponsive to immunotherapy, whereas MMR-deficient (MMRd) tumors often respond …

Novel WRN helicase inhibitors selectively target microsatellite-unstable cancer cells

G Picco, Y Rao, A Al Saedi, Y Lee, SF Vieira… - Cancer …, 2024‏ - aacrjournals.org
Microsatellite-unstable (MSI) cancers require WRN helicase to resolve replication stress due
to expanded DNA (TA) n dinucleotide repeats. WRN is a promising synthetic lethal target for …

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) as a disease of early aging: Evidence from the EpiChron Cohort

MJ Divo, BR Celli, B Poblador-Plou… - PloS one, 2018‏ - journals.plos.org
Background Aging is an important risk factor for most chronic diseases. Patients with COPD
develop more comorbidities than non-COPD subjects. We hypothesized that the …

Large T cell clones expressing immune checkpoints increase during multiple myeloma evolution and predict treatment resistance

C Botta, C Perez, M Larrayoz, N Puig… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Tumor recognition by T cells is essential for antitumor immunity. A comprehensive
characterization of T cell diversity may be key to understanding the success of …

RECIST and iRECIST criteria for the evaluation of nivolumab plus ipilimumab in patients with microsatellite instability-high/mismatch repair-deficient metastatic …

R Cohen, J Bennouna, A Meurisse… - Journal for …, 2020‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are highly effective in patients with
microsatellite instability/mismatch repair-deficient (MSI/dMMR) metastatic colorectal cancer …

Targeting interleukin-17 enhances tumor response to immune checkpoint inhibitors in colorectal cancer

S Li, R Na, X Li, Y Zhang, T Zheng - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews on …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Although immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have gained much attention in managing
cancer, only a minority of patients, especially those with tumors that have been classified as …

Tislelizumab: a modified anti-tumor programmed death receptor 1 antibody

L Zhang, Z Geng, B Hao, Q Geng - Cancer Control, 2022‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Tislelizumab is an anti-programmed death receptor 1 (PD-1) monoclonal immunoglobulin G
4 antibody developed by BeiGene. The structure of tislelizumab has been modified to …

Gut microbiome: decision-makers in the microenvironment of colorectal cancer

J Han, B Zhang, Y Zhang, T Yin, Y Cui, J Liu… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a common malignancy of the gastrointestinal tract, accounting for
the second most common cause of gastrointestinal tumors. As one of the intestinal barriers …