[HTML][HTML] PD-1/PD-L1 blockade as a novel treatment for colorectal cancer

N Yaghoubi, A Soltani, K Ghazvini… - Biomedicine & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Colorectal cancer (CRC), as a prominent cause of cancer-related deaths, has historically
been notable worldwide and many attempts have been made to raise the overall survival of …

[HTML][HTML] The prognostic and clinicopathological roles of PD-L1 expression in colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Y Li, M He, Y Zhou, C Yang, S Wei, X Bian… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Background: Studies evaluating the prognostic significance of programmed death-ligand 1
(PD-L1) expression in colorectal cancer (CRC) are limited and remain controversial. This …

Microsatellite instability and programmed cell death-ligand 1 expression in stage II/III gastric cancer: post hoc analysis of the CLASSIC randomized controlled study

YY Choi, H Kim, SJ Shin, HY Kim, J Lee… - Annals of …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Objective: We investigated microsatellite instability (MSI) status and programed cell death
ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression as predictors of prognosis and responsiveness to …

Doxorubicin and anti-PD-L1 antibody conjugated gold nanoparticles for colorectal cancer photochemotherapy

F Emami, A Banstola, A Vatanara, S Lee… - Molecular …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. The
prognosis and overall survival of CRC are known to be significantly correlated with the …

IL6 modulates the immune status of the tumor microenvironment to facilitate metastatic colonization of colorectal cancer cells

Y Toyoshima, H Kitamura, H Xiang, Y Ohno… - Cancer immunology …, 2019 - AACR
It is unknown as to how liver metastases are correlated with host immune status in colorectal
cancer. In this study, we found that IL6, a proinflammatory cytokine produced in tumor …

BRAFV600E-induced, tumor intrinsic PD-L1 can regulate chemotherapy-induced apoptosis in human colon cancer cells and in tumor xenografts

D Feng, B Qin, K Pal, L Sun, S Dutta, H Dong, X Liu… - Oncogene, 2019 - nature.com
Programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) is an immune checkpoint protein; however, emerging
data suggest that tumor cell PD-L1 may regulate immune-independent and intrinsic cellular …

Stromal PD-1/PD-L1 expression predicts outcome in colon cancer patients

J Wyss, B Dislich, VH Koelzer, JA Galván… - Clinical colorectal …, 2019 - Elsevier
Introduction The programmed cell death 1 (PD-1)/programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1)
axis plays an important role in controlling immune suppression by down-regulating T effector …

The tumor microenvironment in colorectal cancer therapy

L Pedrosa, F Esposito, TM Thomson, J Maurel - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
The current standard-of-care for metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) includes
chemotherapy and anti-angiogenic or anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) …

Prognostic and clinicopathological value of PD-L1 in colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis

L Yang, R Xue, C Pan - OncoTargets and therapy, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose The prognostic role of programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) in colorectal cancer
remains unclear. We employed a meta-analysis to explore the prognostic value of PD-L1 …

Targeted systemic treatment of neuroendocrine tumors: current options and future perspectives

AD Herrera-Martínez, J Hofland, LJ Hofland… - Drugs, 2019 - Springer
Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) originate from the neuroendocrine cell system in the
bronchial and gastrointestinal tract and can produce hormones leading to distinct clinical …