Tumor microenvironment: barrier or opportunity towards effective cancer therapy

A Tiwari, R Trivedi, SY Lin - Journal of biomedical science, 2022 - Springer
Tumor microenvironment (TME) is a specialized ecosystem of host components, designed
by tumor cells for successful development and metastasis of tumor. With the advent of 3D …

Immune checkpoint blockade in glioblastoma: from tumor heterogeneity to personalized treatment

VA Arrieta, C Dmello, DJ McGrail… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) has revolutionized modern cancer therapy, arousing
great interest in the neuro-oncology community. While several reports show that subsets of …

Antigen presentation in cancer—mechanisms and clinical implications for immunotherapy

K Yang, A Halima, TA Chan - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2023 - nature.com
Over the past decade, the emergence of effective immunotherapies has revolutionized the
clinical management of many types of cancers. However, long-term durable tumour control …

Dissecting metastasis using preclinical models and methods

JD Hebert, JW Neal, MM Winslow - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Metastasis has long been understood to lead to the overwhelming majority of cancer-related
deaths. However, our understanding of the metastatic process, and thus our ability to …

Clinical-genomic determinants of immune checkpoint blockade response in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

C Valero, M Golkaram, JL Vos, B Xu… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
BACKGROUND Recurrent and/or metastatic (R/M) head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
(HNSCC) is generally an incurable disease, with patients experiencing median survival of …

Comparative effectiveness of immune checkpoint inhibitors vs chemotherapy in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer with measures of microsatellite instability …

JCF Quintanilha, RP Graf, VA Fisher… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The KEYNOTE-177 trial demonstrated that patients with metastatic colorectal
cancer (MCRC) with high microsatellite instability (MSI-H) and/or mismatch repair deficiency …

Loss of p53 and mutational heterogeneity drives immune resistance in an autochthonous mouse lung cancer model with high tumor mutational burden

M Zhu, J Kim, Q Deng, B Ricciuti, JV Alessi… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The role of tumor mutational burden (TMB) in shaping tumor immunity is a key question that
has not been addressable using genetically engineered mouse models (GEMMs) of lung …

Germline pathogenic variants in patients with early-onset neuroendocrine neoplasms

RP Riechelmann, MDS Donadio… - Endocrine-Related …, 2023 - erc.bioscientifica.com
Neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs) are a rare group of cancers with heterogeneous
behaviour and mostly of unknown aetiology. Excluding some infrequent hereditary cancer …

Prospects of POLD1 in human cancers: a review

M Gola, P Stefaniak, J Godlewski, BA Jereczek-Fossa… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Polymerase delta 1 (POLD1), a catalytic and proofreading subunit of the
human DNA polymerase delta (Polδ), plays a vital role in maintaining the stability of the …

Current progress on predictive biomarkers for response to immune checkpoint inhibitors in gastric cancer: how to maximize the immunotherapeutic benefit?

Y Liu, P Hu, L Xu, X Zhang, Z Li, Y Li, H Qiu - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The landscape of gastric cancer treatment has changed owing to the
widespread use of immune checkpoint inhibitors. Only a subset of patients, though, have …