Immune checkpoint therapy—current perspectives and future directions

P Sharma, S Goswami, D Raychaudhuri, BA Siddiqui… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Immune checkpoint therapy (ICT) has dramatically altered clinical outcomes for cancer
patients and conferred durable clinical benefits, including cure in a subset of patients …

The cancer-immunity cycle: Indication, genotype, and immunotype

I Mellman, DS Chen, T Powles, SJ Turley - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
The cancer-immunity cycle provides a framework to understand the series of events that
generate anti-cancer immune responses. It emphasizes the iterative nature of the response …

Tremelimumab plus durvalumab in unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma

GK Abou-Alfa, G Lau, M Kudo, SL Chan… - NEJM …, 2022 - evidence.nejm.org
Background A single, high priming dose of tremelimumab (anti-cytotoxic T lymphocyte–
associated antigen 4) plus durvalumab (anti–programmed cell death ligand-1), an infusion …

Turning cold tumors hot: from molecular mechanisms to clinical applications

J Zhang, D Huang, PE Saw, E Song - Trends in immunology, 2022 - cell.com
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapies have achieved clinical benefit, but most
'immune-cold'solid tumors are not responsive. The diversity of immune evasion mechanisms …

CD8+ T cell activation in cancer comprises an initial activation phase in lymph nodes followed by effector differentiation within the tumor

N Prokhnevska, MA Cardenas, RM Valanparambil… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Improvements in tumor immunotherapies depend on better understanding of the anti-tumor
T cell response. By studying human tumor-draining lymph nodes (TDLNs), we found that …

Combination strategies with PD-1/PD-L1 blockade: current advances and future directions

M Yi, X Zheng, M Niu, S Zhu, H Ge, K Wu - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Antibodies targeting programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1) or its ligand PD-L1 rescue T
cells from exhausted status and revive immune response against cancer cells. Based on the …

Immunogenic cell death activates the tumor immune microenvironment to boost the immunotherapy efficiency

Z Li, X Lai, S Fu, L Ren, H Cai, H Zhang, Z Gu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Tumor immunotherapy is only effective in a fraction of patients due to a low response rate
and severe side effects, and these challenges of immunotherapy in clinics can be addressed …

CAR race to cancer immunotherapy: from CAR T, CAR NK to CAR macrophage therapy

K Pan, H Farrukh, VCSR Chittepu, H Xu, C Pan… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - Springer
Adoptive cell therapy with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) immunotherapy has made
tremendous progress with five CAR T therapies approved by the US Food and Drug …

Resistance mechanisms to anti-PD cancer immunotherapy

MD Vesely, T Zhang, L Chen - Annual review of immunology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The transformative success of antibodies targeting the PD-1 (programmed death 1)/B7-H1
(B7 homolog 1) pathway (anti-PD therapy) has revolutionized cancer treatment. However …

Single-cell meta-analyses reveal responses of tumor-reactive CXCL13+ T cells to immune-checkpoint blockade

B Liu, Y Zhang, D Wang, X Hu, Z Zhang - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Immune-checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapies represent a paradigm shift in the treatment of
human cancers; however, it remains incompletely understood how tumor-reactive T cells …