Clinical implications of T cell exhaustion for cancer immunotherapy

A Chow, K Perica, CA Klebanoff… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2022 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has been a remarkable clinical advancement in the treatment of cancer. T
cells are pivotal to the efficacy of current cancer immunotherapies, including immune …

Resistance mechanisms to anti-PD cancer immunotherapy

MD Vesely, T Zhang, L Chen - Annual review of immunology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The transformative success of antibodies targeting the PD-1 (programmed death 1)/B7-H1
(B7 homolog 1) pathway (anti-PD therapy) has revolutionized cancer treatment. However …

Pan-cancer T cell atlas links a cellular stress response state to immunotherapy resistance

Y Chu, E Dai, Y Li, G Han, G Pei, DR Ingram… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Tumor-infiltrating T cells offer a promising avenue for cancer treatment, yet their states
remain to be fully characterized. Here we present a single-cell atlas of T cells from 308,048 …

Toward personalized treatment approaches for non-small-cell lung cancer

M Wang, RS Herbst, C Boshoff - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Worldwide, lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related deaths. Molecular
targeted therapies and immunotherapies for non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have …

Temporal single-cell tracing reveals clonal revival and expansion of precursor exhausted T cells during anti-PD-1 therapy in lung cancer

B Liu, X Hu, K Feng, R Gao, Z Xue, S Zhang, Y Zhang… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Anti-PD-1 treatment has shown unprecedented clinical success in the treatment of non-small-
cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but the underlying mechanisms remain incompletely understood …

CD8+ T cell activation in cancer comprises an initial activation phase in lymph nodes followed by effector differentiation within the tumor

N Prokhnevska, MA Cardenas, RM Valanparambil… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Improvements in tumor immunotherapies depend on better understanding of the anti-tumor
T cell response. By studying human tumor-draining lymph nodes (TDLNs), we found that …

Therapeutic cancer vaccines

M Saxena, SH van der Burg, CJM Melief… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Therapeutic cancer vaccines have undergone a resurgence in the past decade. A better
understanding of the breadth of tumour-associated antigens, the native immune response …

Systemic immunity in cancer

KJ Hiam-Galvez, BM Allen, MH Spitzer - Nature reviews cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatment, but efficacy remains limited in most
clinical settings. Cancer is a systemic disease that induces many functional and …

Dietary tryptophan metabolite released by intratumoral Lactobacillus reuteri facilitates immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment

MJ Bender, AC McPherson, CM Phelps, SP Pandey… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The use of probiotics by cancer patients is increasing, including among those undergoing
immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) treatment. Here, we elucidate a critical microbial-host …

Non-viral, specifically targeted CAR-T cells achieve high safety and efficacy in B-NHL

J Zhang, Y Hu, J Yang, W Li, M Zhang, Q Wang… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Recently, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy has shown great promise in
treating haematological malignancies,,,,,–. However, CAR-T cell therapy currently has …