The current landscape of immune checkpoint blockade in hepatocellular carcinoma: a review

M Pinter, RK Jain, DG Duda - JAMA oncology, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance For more than a decade, sorafenib has been the only systemic treatment option
for patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, rapid progress over …

Development of immunotherapy combination strategies in cancer

TA Yap, EE Parkes, W Peng, JT Moyers, MA Curran… - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
Harnessing the immune system to treat cancer through inhibitors of CTLA4 and PD-L1 has
revolutionized the landscape of cancer. Rational combination strategies aim to enhance the …

Repurposing of drugs: An attractive pharmacological strategy for cancer therapeutics

A Kirtonia, K Gala, SG Fernandes, G Pandya… - Seminars in cancer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Human malignancies are one of the major health-related issues though out the world and
anticipated to rise in the future. The development of novel drugs/agents requires a huge …

Vascular normalization: a new window opened for cancer therapies

T Yang, H Xiao, X Liu, Z Wang, Q Zhang, N Wei… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Preclinical and clinical antiangiogenic approaches, with multiple side effects such as
resistance, have not been proved to be very successful in treating tumor blood vessels …

Combination strategies to augment immune check point inhibitors efficacy-implications for translational research

H Varayathu, V Sarathy, BE Thomas, SS Mufti… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy has revolutionized the field of cancer immunotherapy.
Even though it has shown a durable response in some solid tumors, several patients do not …

The tumor proteolytic landscape: a challenging frontier in cancer diagnosis and therapy

M Vizovisek, D Ristanovic, S Menghini… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
In recent decades, dysregulation of proteases and atypical proteolysis have become
increasingly recognized as important hallmarks of cancer, driving community-wide efforts to …

Antiangiogenic therapy reverses the immunosuppressive breast cancer microenvironment

W Chen, L Shen, J Jiang, L Zhang, Z Zhang, J Pan… - Biomarker …, 2021 - Springer
Tumor angiogenesis induces local hypoxia and recruits immunosuppressive cells, whereas
hypoxia subsequently promotes tumor angiogenesis. Immunotherapy efficacy depends on …

[HTML][HTML] Vascular normalization in immunotherapy: A promising mechanisms combined with radiotherapy

Z Liu, Q Zhao, Z Zheng, S Liu, L Meng, L Dong… - Biomedicine & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Leakage and compression of blood vessels may result in deprivation of blood flow to a large
number of tumor tissues, which can lead to tumor hypoxia. Hypoxia induces an increase in …

The use of antihypertensive drugs as coadjuvant therapy in cancer

JA Carlos-Escalante, M de Jesus-Sanchez… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cancer is a complex group of diseases that constitute the second largest cause of mortality
worldwide. The development of new drugs for treating this disease is a long and costly …

[HTML][HTML] The mechanisms of renin–angiotensin system in hepatocellular carcinoma: From the perspective of liver fibrosis, HCC cell proliferation, metastasis and …

HF Zhang, X Gao, X Wang, X Chen, Y Huang… - Biomedicine & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide, of which
the occurrence and development involve a variety of pathophysiological processes, such as …