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 …

[HTML][HTML] Trends and challenges in tumor anti-angiogenic therapies

J Jászai, MHH Schmidt - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Excessive abnormal angiogenesis plays a pivotal role in tumor progression and is a
hallmark of solid tumors. This process is driven by an imbalance between pro-and anti …

Neoadjuvant nivolumab modifies the tumor immune microenvironment in resectable glioblastoma

KA Schalper, ME Rodriguez-Ruiz, R Diez-Valle… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Glioblastoma is the most common primary central nervous system malignancy and has a
poor prognosis. Standard first-line treatment, which includes surgery followed by adjuvant …

Clinical efficacy and biomarker analysis of neoadjuvant atezolizumab in operable urothelial carcinoma in the ABACUS trial

T Powles, M Kockx, A Rodriguez-Vida, I Duran… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Antibodies targeting PD-1 or its ligand 1 PD-L1 such as atezolizumab, have great efficacy in
a proportion of metastatic urothelial cancers,. Biomarkers may facilitate identification of these …

CAR T cells for brain tumors: Lessons learned and road ahead

D Akhavan, D Alizadeh, D Wang, MR Weist… - Immunological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Malignant brain tumors, including glioblastoma, represent some of the most difficult to treat
of solid tumors. Nevertheless, recent progress in immunotherapy, across a broad range of …

[HTML][HTML] CRISPR-Cas9 disruption of PD-1 enhances activity of universal EGFRvIII CAR T cells in a preclinical model of human glioblastoma

BD Choi, X Yu, AP Castano, H Darr… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2019 - Springer
Despite remarkable success in the treatment of hematological malignancies, CAR T-cell
therapies for solid tumors have floundered, in large part due to local immune suppression …

Regulatable interleukin-12 gene therapy in patients with recurrent high-grade glioma: Results of a phase 1 trial

EA Chiocca, JS Yu, RV Lukas, IH Solomon… - Science translational …, 2019 - science.org
Human interleukin-12 (hIL-12) is a cytokine with anticancer activity, but its systemic
application is limited by toxic inflammatory responses. We assessed the safety and …

Advanced nanotechnology leading the way to multimodal imaging‐guided precision surgical therapy

C Wang, W Fan, Z Zhang, Y Wen, L Xiong… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Surgical resection is the primary and most effective treatment for most patients with solid
tumors. However, patients suffer from postoperative recurrence and metastasis. In the past …

In vivo CRISPR screening in CD8 T cells with AAV–Sleeping Beauty hybrid vectors identifies membrane targets for improving immunotherapy for glioblastoma

L Ye, JJ Park, MB Dong, Q Yang, RD Chow… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Targeting membrane proteins could improve the efficacy of T cell–based immunotherapies.
To facilitate the identification of T cell targets, we developed a hybrid genetic screening …

The promise of neoadjuvant immunotherapy and surgery for cancer treatment

JS O'Donnell, EP Hoefsmit, MJ Smyth, CU Blank… - Clinical Cancer …, 2019 - AACR
Cancer immunotherapies utilizing immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) have demonstrated
durable efficacy in a proportion of patients with advanced/metastatic cancers. More recently …