RATIONALE 301 study: tislelizumab versus sorafenib as first-line treatment for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma

S Qin, RS Finn, M Kudo, T Meyer, A Vogel… - Future …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Advanced, unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has a poor prognosis with median
life expectancy of approximately 1 year. Overexpression of PD-L1 in tumor cells and PD-1 …

Carcinogenesis and therapeutics: the microbiota perspective

MCB Tsilimigras, A Fodor, C Jobin - Nature microbiology, 2017 - nature.com
Cancer arises from the acquisition of multiple genetic and epigenetic changes in host cells
over the span of many years, promoting oncogenic traits and carcinogenesis. Most cancers …

T cells in multiple myeloma display features of exhaustion and senescence at the tumor site

C Zelle-Rieser, S Thangavadivel… - Journal of hematology & …, 2016 - Springer
Background Multiple myeloma is an incurable plasma cell malignancy that is mostly
restricted to the bone marrow. Cancer-induced dysfunction of cytotoxic T cells at the tumor …

Immune checkpoint inhibitors for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma

MA Abd El Aziz, A Facciorusso, T Nayfeh, S Saadi… - Vaccines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Despite the advances in screening protocols and treatment options, hepatocellular
carcinoma (HCC) is still considered to be the most lethal malignancy in patients with liver …

Vectorization in an oncolytic vaccinia virus of an antibody, a Fab and a scFv against programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) allows their intratumoral delivery and an …

P Kleinpeter, L Fend, C Thioudellet, M Geist… - …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
We report here the successful vectorization of a hamster monoclonal IgG (namely J43)
recognizing the murine Programmed cell death-1 (mPD-1) in Western Reserve (WR) …

Programmed cell death-ligand 1 expression in oral squamous cell carcinoma is associated with an inflammatory phenotype

L Satgunaseelan, R Gupta, J Madore, N Chia, T Lum… - Pathology, 2016 - Elsevier
Phase 2 clinical trials utilising novel anti-PD1/PD-L1 antibodies are being conducted in oral
cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) patients. However, data regarding PD-L1 …

HSP90 and immune modulation in cancer

MW Graner - Advances in cancer research, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Heat-shock protein 90 (HSP90) is a highly conserved molecular chaperone that
plays prominent functional roles in nearly all aspects of cell biology. As a chaperone, it …

Pembrolizumab therapy triggering an exacerbation of preexisting autoimmune disease: a report of 2 patient cases

SD Phadke, R Ghabour, BL Swick… - … High Impact Case …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Historically, metastatic melanoma was uniformly and rapidly lethal, and treatment options
were limited. In recent years, however, checkpoint inhibitors have emerged as an accepted …

Tumor microenvironment as a therapeutic target in melanoma treatment

N Kharouf, TW Flanagan, SY Hassan, H Shalaby… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary As a solid tumor, melanoma is not only a tumor mass of monolithic tumor
cells, but it also contains supporting stroma, extracellular matrix (ECM), and soluble …

Potential cardiac risk of immune‐checkpoint blockade as anticancer treatment: what we know, what we do not know, and what we can do to prevent adverse effects

P Spallarossa, G Meliota, C Brunelli… - Medicinal Research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer immunotherapy has become a well‐established treatment option for some cancers
after the development of a family of drugs targeting the so‐called immune checkpoints, such …