Immune checkpoint therapy—current perspectives and future directions

P Sharma, S Goswami, D Raychaudhuri, BA Siddiqui… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Immune checkpoint therapy (ICT) has dramatically altered clinical outcomes for cancer
patients and conferred durable clinical benefits, including cure in a subset of patients …

Gut microbiota in colorectal cancer development and therapy

CC Wong, J Yu - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2023 - nature.com
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the commonest cancers globally. A unique aspect of CRC
is its intimate association with the gut microbiota, which forms an essential part of the tumour …

Management of immune-related adverse events in patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy: ASCO guideline update

BJ Schneider, J Naidoo, BD Santomasso… - Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE To increase awareness, outline strategies, and offer guidance on the
recommended management of immune-related adverse events (irAEs) in patients treated …

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 …

Gut microbiota influence immunotherapy responses: mechanisms and therapeutic strategies

Y Lu, X Yuan, M Wang, Z He, H Li, J Wang… - Journal of hematology & …, 2022 - Springer
The gut microbiota have long been recognized to play a key role in human health and
disease. Currently, several lines of evidence from preclinical to clinical research have …

The microbiome and human cancer

GD Sepich-Poore, L Zitvogel, R Straussman, J Hasty… - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Historical accounts linking cancer and microbes date as early as four
millennia ago. After establishment of the germ theory of infectious diseases, clinical research …

Oncogenic collagen I homotrimers from cancer cells bind to α3β1 integrin and impact tumor microbiome and immunity to promote pancreatic cancer

Y Chen, S Yang, J Tavormina, D Tampe, M Zeisberg… - Cancer cell, 2022 - cell.com
In contrast to normal type I collagen (Col1) heterotrimer (α1/α2/α1) produced by fibroblasts,
pancreatic cancer cells specifically produce unique Col1 homotrimer (α1/α1/α1). Col1 …

Targeting the gut microbiota for cancer therapy

MR Fernandes, P Aggarwal, RGF Costa… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Growing evidence suggests that the gut microbiota modulates the efficacy and toxicity of
cancer therapy, most notably immunotherapy and its immune-related adverse effects. The …

Immune-related adverse events and the balancing act of immunotherapy

M Conroy, J Naidoo - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
The benefit from immune checkpoint inhibitors is tempered by immunologic toxicities, which
involve diverse organs, have varying biology, onset time, and severity. Herein, we identify …

The intestinal microbiota and colorectal cancer

Y Cheng, Z Ling, L Li - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The intestinal microbiota, composed of a large population of microorganisms, is often
considered a “forgotten organ” in human health and diseases. Increasing evidence indicates …