Combination strategies to maximize the benefits of cancer immunotherapy

S Zhu, T Zhang, L Zheng, H Liu, W Song, D Liu… - Journal of hematology & …, 2021 - Springer
Immunotherapies such as immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) and adoptive cell therapy
(ACT) have revolutionized cancer treatment, especially in patients whose disease was …

Define cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) in the tumor microenvironment: new opportunities in cancer immunotherapy and advances in clinical trials

H Zhang, X Yue, Z Chen, C Liu, W Wu, N Zhang, Z Liu… - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
Despite centuries since the discovery and study of cancer, cancer is still a lethal and
intractable health issue worldwide. Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) have gained much …

Chemokines and chemokine receptors: new targets for cancer immunotherapy

V Mollica Poeta, M Massara, A Capucetti… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Immunotherapy is a clinically validated treatment for many cancers to boost the immune
system against tumor growth and dissemination. Several strategies are used to harness …

Chemokine-directed tumor microenvironment modulation in cancer immunotherapy

P Bule, SI Aguiar, F Aires-Da-Silva… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Chemokines are a large family of small chemotactic cytokines that coordinates immune cell
trafficking. In cancer, they have a pivotal role in the migration pattern of immune cells into the …

Blocking CXCR4 alleviates desmoplasia, increases T-lymphocyte infiltration, and improves immunotherapy in metastatic breast cancer

IX Chen, VP Chauhan, J Posada… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Metastatic breast cancers (mBCs) are largely resistant to immune checkpoint blockade, but
the mechanisms remain unclear. Primary breast cancers are characterized by a dense …

Inflammation and cancer: advances and new agents

SM Crusz, FR Balkwill - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2015 - nature.com
Tumour-promoting inflammation is considered one of the enabling characteristics of cancer
development. Chronic inflammatory disease increases the risk of some cancers, and strong …

Role of the tumor microenvironment in breast cancer

SD Soysal, A Tzankov, SE Muenst - Pathobiology, 2015 - karger.com
In recent years, it has been shown that breast cancer consists not only of neoplastic cells,
but also of significant alterations in the surrounding stroma or tumor microenvironment …

Investigating the optimal size of anticancer nanomedicine

L Tang, X Yang, Q Yin, K Cai, H Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Nanomedicines (NMs) offer new solutions for cancer diagnosis and therapy. However,
extension of progression-free interval and overall survival time achieved by Food and Drug …

Chemokines in cancer

MT Chow, AD Luster - Cancer immunology research, 2014 - AACR
Chemokines are chemotactic cytokines that control the migration of cells between tissues
and the positioning and interactions of cells within tissue. The chemokine superfamily …

The intricate role of CXCR4 in cancer

S Chatterjee, BB Azad, S Nimmagadda - Advances in cancer research, 2014 - Elsevier
Chemokines mediate numerous physiological and pathological processes related primarily
to cell homing and migration. The chemokine CXCL12, also known as stromal cell-derived …