Advances in the development of personalized neoantigen-based therapeutic cancer vaccines

E Blass, PA Ott - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2021 - nature.com
Within the past decade, the field of immunotherapy has revolutionized the treatment of many
cancers with the development and regulatory approval of various immune-checkpoint …

CD8+ T cells in the cancer-immunity cycle

JR Giles, AM Globig, SM Kaech, EJ Wherry - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
CD8+ T cells are end effectors of cancer immunity. Most forms of effective cancer
immunotherapy involve CD8+ T cell effector function. Here, we review the current …

Single-cell analyses define a continuum of cell state and composition changes in the malignant transformation of polyps to colorectal cancer

WR Becker, SA Nevins, DC Chen, R Chiu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
To chart cell composition and cell state changes that occur during the transformation of
healthy colon to precancerous adenomas to colorectal cancer (CRC), we generated single …

[HTML][HTML] Lymph node colonization induces tumor-immune tolerance to promote distant metastasis

NE Reticker-Flynn, W Zhang, JA Belk, PA Basto… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
For many solid malignancies, lymph node (LN) involvement represents a harbinger of
distant metastatic disease and, therefore, an important prognostic factor. Beyond its utility as …

PD-1 combination therapy with IL-2 modifies CD8+ T cell exhaustion program

M Hashimoto, K Araki, MA Cardenas, P Li, RR Jadhav… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Combination therapy with PD-1 blockade and IL-2 is highly effective during chronic
lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection. Here we examine the underlying basis for this …

The tumor microenvironment

NM Anderson, MC Simon - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
A tumor is not simply a group of cancer cells, but rather a heterogeneous collection of
infiltrating and resident host cells, secreted factors and extracellular matrix. Tumor cells …

Extricating human tumour immune alterations from tissue inflammation

F Mair, JR Erickson, M Frutoso, AJ Konecny, E Greene… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Immunotherapies have achieved remarkable successes in the treatment of cancer, but major
challenges remain,. An inherent weakness of current treatment approaches is that …

Nanoscale coordination polymers induce immunogenic cell death by amplifying radiation therapy mediated oxidative stress

Z Huang, Y Wang, D Yao, J Wu, Y Hu, A Yuan - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Radiation therapy can potentially induce immunogenic cell death, thereby priming anti-
tumor adaptive immune responses. However, radiation-induced systemic immune …

Epithelial and stromal co-evolution and complicity in pancreatic cancer

SR Hingorani - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas are distinguished by their robust desmoplasia, or
fibroinflammatory response. Dominated by non-malignant cells, the mutated epithelium must …

Obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cancer risk

T Scully, A Ettela, D LeRoith, EJ Gallagher - Frontiers in oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Obesity and type 2 diabetes have both been associated with increased cancer risk and are
becoming increasingly prevalent. Metabolic abnormalities such as insulin resistance and …