Tumour burden and efficacy of immune-checkpoint inhibitors

FG Dall'Olio, A Marabelle, C Caramella… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2022 - nature.com
Accumulating evidence suggests that a high tumour burden has a negative effect on
anticancer immunity. The concept of tumour burden, simply defined as the total amount of …

The future of cancer immunotherapy: DNA vaccines leading the way

A Pandya, Y Shah, N Kothari, H Postwala, A Shah… - Medical Oncology, 2023 - Springer
Immuno-oncology has revolutionized cancer treatment and has opened up new
opportunities for developing vaccination methods. DNA-based cancer vaccines have …

[HTML][HTML] Metformin improves cancer immunotherapy by directly rescuing tumor-infiltrating CD8 T lymphocytes from hypoxia-induced immunosuppression

V Finisguerra, T Dvorakova, M Formenti… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Despite their revolutionary success in cancer treatment over the last decades,
immunotherapies encounter limitations in certain tumor types and patients. The efficacy of …

Tumor burden limits bispecific antibody efficacy through T-cell exhaustion averted by concurrent cytotoxic therapy

EW Meermeier, SJ Welsh, ME Sharik, MT Du… - Blood cancer …, 2021 - AACR
BCMA/CD3-targeting bispecific antibodies (BsAb) are a recently developed immunotherapy
class that shows potent tumor killing activity in multiple myeloma. Here, we investigated a …

Bispecific antibodies in multiple myeloma: opportunities to enhance efficacy and improve safety

D Swan, P Murphy, S Glavey, J Quinn - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow, is the commonest cancer
of adults in the Western World. Therapies have advanced dramatically in recent years …

Immune-Enhancing Effect of Sargassum horneri on Cyclophosphamide-Induced Immunosuppression in BALB/c Mice and Primary Cultured Splenocytes

HI Kim, DS Kim, Y Jung, NY Sung, M Kim, IJ Han… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Sargassum horneri (SH) is a seaweed that has several features that benefit health. In this
study, we investigated the immune-enhancing effect of SH, focusing on the role of spleen …

Genome instability in multiple myeloma: Facts and factors

AY Aksenova, AS Zhuk, AG Lada, IV Zotova… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Multiple myeloma is an incurable blood cancer caused by the malignant
transformation of immunoglobulin-producing plasma cells. The mechanisms leading to the …

Belantamab mafodotin to treat multiple myeloma: a comprehensive review of disease, drug efficacy and side effects

G Lassiter, C Bergeron, R Guedry, J Cucarola… - Current …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Multiple myeloma (MM) is a hematologic malignancy characterized by excessive clonal
proliferation of plasma cells. The treatment of multiple myeloma presents a variety of unique …

Revisiting the role of alkylating agents in multiple myeloma: Up-to-date evidence and future perspectives

BA Costa, TH Mouhieddine, RJ Ortiz… - Critical Reviews in …, 2023 - Elsevier
From the 1960s to the early 2000s, alkylating agents (eg, melphalan, cyclophosphamide,
and bendamustine) remained a key component of standard therapy for newly-diagnosed or …

Immune system alterations in multiple myeloma: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic strategies to reverse immunosuppression

A Díaz-Tejedor, M Lorenzo-Mohamed, N Puig… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary A common characteristic of multiple myeloma (MM) is the dysfunction of
patients' immune system, a condition termed immunosuppression. This state is mainly due to …