Immune checkpoint therapy for solid tumours: clinical dilemmas and future trends

Q Sun, Z Hong, C Zhang, L Wang, Z Han… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICBs), in addition to targeting CTLA-4, PD-1, and PD-
L1, novel targeting LAG-3 drugs have also been approved in clinical application. With the …

Tumor mutational burden in breast cancer: current evidence, challenges, and opportunities

R Barroso-Sousa, JP Pacífico, S Sammons… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The tumor mutational burden (TMB) can be defined as the number of
somatic mutations per megabase of the sequenced genome. It correlates with tumor …

Molecular characterization of endometrial carcinomas in Black and White patients reveals disparate drivers with therapeutic implications

B Weigelt, A Marra, P Selenica, E Rios-Doria… - Cancer discovery, 2023 - AACR
Although the incidence of endometrial carcinoma (EC) is similar in Black and White women,
racial disparities are stark, with the highest mortality rates observed among Black patients …

Tumor sequencing of African ancestry reveals differences in clinically relevant alterations across common cancers

E Jiagge, DX Jin, JY Newberg, T Perea-Chamblee… - Cancer cell, 2023 - cell.com
Cancer genomes from patients with African (AFR) ancestry have been poorly studied in
clinical research. We leverage two large genomic cohorts to investigate the relationship …

Comprehensive genomic profiling of penile squamous cell carcinoma and the impact of human papillomavirus status on immune‐checkpoint inhibitor‐related …

B Nazha, T Zhuang, S Wu, JT Brown, D Magee… - Cancer, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Advanced penile squamous cell carcinoma (pSCC) is a rare and aggressive
malignancy with limited success of immune‐checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). Approximately half …

Universal Germline and Tumor Genomic Testing Needed to Win the War Against Cancer: Genomics Is the Diagnosis

V Subbiah, R Kurzrock - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2023 - ascopubs.org
Cancer is a genomic disease in that gene alterations drive the cellular growth and immune
surveillance perturbations that enable malignant cells to take hold and to metastasize …

Artificial Intelligence in Oncology: Current Landscape, Challenges, and Future Directions

W Lotter, MJ Hassett, N Schultz, KL Kehl, EM Van Allen… - Cancer Discovery, 2024 - AACR
Artificial intelligence (AI) in oncology is advancing beyond algorithm development to
integration into clinical practice. This review describes the current state of the field, with a …

[HTML][HTML] High tumor mutational burden predicts favorable response to anti-PD-(L) 1 therapy in patients with solid tumor: a real-world pan-tumor analysis

J Jung, YJ Heo, S Park - Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Tumor mutation burden (TMB) is an important biomarker to predict response to
anti-PD-L1 treatment across cancer types. TruSight Oncology 500 (TSO500) is currently …

Artificial intelligence applied in neoantigen identification facilitates personalized cancer immunotherapy

Y Cai, R Chen, S Gao, W Li, Y Liu, G Su, M Song… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The field of cancer neoantigen investigation has developed swiftly in the past decade.
Predicting novel and true neoantigens derived from large multi-omics data became difficult …

Understanding inequities in precision oncology diagnostics

R Dutta, M Vallurupalli, Q McVeigh, FW Huang… - Nature Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Advances in molecular diagnostics have enabled the identification of targetable driver
pathogenic variants, forming the basis of precision oncology care. However, the adoption of …