Insights into pathogenic interactions among environment, host, and tumor at the crossroads of molecular pathology and epidemiology

S Ogino, JA Nowak, T Hamada… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Evidence indicates that diet, nutrition, lifestyle, the environment, the microbiome, and other
exogenous factors have pathogenic roles and also influence the genome, epigenome …

Harnessing the innate immune system and local immunological microenvironment to treat colorectal cancer

JN Kather, N Halama - British journal of cancer, 2019 - nature.com
Significant progress in the development of new immunotherapies has led to successful
clinical trials for malignant melanoma and non-small cell lung cancer; however, for the …

Predictive and prognostic factors in HCC patients treated with sorafenib

O Brunetti, A Gnoni, A Licchetta, V Longo, A Calabrese… - Medicina, 2019 - mdpi.com
Sorafenib is an oral kinase inhibitor that enhances survival in patients affected by advanced
hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). According to the results of two registrative trials, this drug …

Recent considerations in the application of RAPTA‐C for cancer treatment and perspectives for its combination with immunotherapies

M Rausch, PJ Dyson… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The organometallic ruthenium (II)[Ru (arene) Cl2PTA] PTA‐1, 3, 5‐triaza‐7‐
phosphaadamantane compound, RAPTA‐C, represents an innovative anti‐cancer …

Tumour microenvironment and immune evasion in EGFR addicted NSCLC: hurdles and possibilities

A Santaniello, F Napolitano, A Servetto, P De Placido… - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
In the last few years, the treatment strategy in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)
patients has been heavily modified by the introduction of the immune-checkpoint inhibitors …

Emerging role of immune checkpoint inhibitors in hepatocellular carcinoma

V Longo, O Brunetti, A Gnoni, A Licchetta… - Medicina, 2019 - mdpi.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma is the most common primary liver cancer and the fourth leading
cause of cancer death worldwide. A total of 70–80% of patients are diagnosed at an …

Targeting the tumour immune microenvironment for cancer therapy in human gastrointestinal malignancies

Y Zhang, J Xu, N Zhang, M Chen, H Wang, D Zhu - Cancer letters, 2019 - Elsevier
Gastrointestinal (GI) cancer is a malignancy of the GI tract and accessory digestive organs.
GI cancer patients develop resistance to chemotherapy, targeted therapy drugs and immune …

[HTML][HTML] Meeting report from the joint IARC–NCI international cancer seminar series: a focus on colorectal cancer

MJ Gunter, S Alhomoud, M Arnold, H Brenner, J Burn… - Annals of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Despite significant progress in our understanding of the etiology, biology and genetics of
colorectal cancer, as well as important clinical advances, it remains the third most frequently …

Smoking and risk of colorectal cancer sub-classified by tumor-infiltrating T cells

T Hamada, JA Nowak, Y Masugi… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background Evidence indicates not only carcinogenic effect of cigarette smoking but also its
immunosuppressive effect. We hypothesized that the association of smoking with colorectal …

A pan-cancer approach to predict responsiveness to immune checkpoint inhibitors by machine learning

M Polano, M Chierici, M Dal Bo, D Gentilini, F Di Cintio… - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Immunotherapy by using immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) has dramatically improved the
treatment options in various cancers, increasing survival rates for treated patients …