Mechanisms of immunotherapy resistance: lessons from glioblastoma

CM Jackson, J Choi, M Lim - Nature immunology, 2019 - nature.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the deadliest form of brain cancer, with a median survival of less than
2 years despite surgical resection, radiation, and chemotherapy. GBM's rapid progression …

Molecular subtypes of pancreatic cancer

EA Collisson, P Bailey, DK Chang… - Nature reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Cancers that appear morphologically similar often have dramatically different clinical
features, respond variably to therapy and have a range of outcomes. Compelling evidence …

Genetic and molecular epidemiology of adult diffuse glioma

AM Molinaro, JW Taylor, JK Wiencke… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
The WHO 2007 glioma classification system (based primarily on tumour histology) resulted
in considerable interobserver variability and substantial variation in patient survival within …

mTOR: Role in cancer, metastasis and drug resistance

AK Murugan - Seminars in cancer biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is a serine/threonine kinase that gets inputs from
the amino acids, nutrients, growth factor, and environmental cues to regulate varieties of …

Tracking tumour evolution in glioma through liquid biopsies of cerebrospinal fluid

AM Miller, RH Shah, EI Pentsova, M Pourmaleki… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Diffuse gliomas are the most common malignant brain tumours in adults and include
glioblastomas and World Health Organization (WHO) grade II and grade III tumours …

Control of tumor-associated macrophages and T cells in glioblastoma via AHR and CD39

MC Takenaka, G Gabriely, V Rothhammer… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) play an important role in the immune response to
cancer, but the mechanisms by which the tumor microenvironment controls TAMs and T cell …

Glioblastoma multiforme: an overview of emerging therapeutic targets

OG Taylor, JS Brzozowski, KA Skelding - Frontiers in oncology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and aggressive malignant primary brain
tumour in humans and has a very poor prognosis. The existing treatments have had limited …

Longitudinal molecular trajectories of diffuse glioma in adults

FP Barthel, KC Johnson, FS Varn, AD Moskalik… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The evolutionary processes that drive universal therapeutic resistance in adult patients with
diffuse glioma remain unclear,. Here we analysed temporally separated DNA-sequencing …

Brain tumor microenvironment and host state: implications for immunotherapy

W Tomaszewski, L Sanchez-Perez, TF Gajewski… - Clinical Cancer …, 2019 - AACR
Glioblastoma (GBM) is a highly lethal brain tumor with poor responses to immunotherapies
that have been successful in more immunogenic cancers with less immunosuppressive …

Symbiotic macrophage-glioma cell interactions reveal synthetic lethality in PTEN-null glioma

P Chen, D Zhao, J Li, X Liang, J Li, A Chang, VK Henry… - Cancer cell, 2019 - cell.com
Heterotypic interactions across diverse cell types can enable tumor progression and hold
the potential to expand therapeutic interventions. Here, combined profiling and functional …