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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor-resident intracellular microbiota promotes metastatic colonization in breast cancer

A Fu, B Yao, T Dong, Y Chen, J Yao, Y Liu, H Li, H Bai… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Tumor-resident intracellular microbiota is an emerging tumor component that has been
documented for a variety of cancer types with unclear biological functions. Here, we …

Intestinal Akkermansia muciniphila predicts clinical response to PD-1 blockade in patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer

L Derosa, B Routy, AM Thomas, V Iebba, G Zalcman… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Aside from PD-L1 expression, biomarkers of response to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs)
in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are needed. In a previous retrospective analysis, we …

Nivolumab plus ipilimumab with or without live bacterial supplementation in metastatic renal cell carcinoma: a randomized phase 1 trial

N Dizman, L Meza, P Bergerot, M Alcantara, T Dorff… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Previous studies have suggested that the gut microbiome influences the response to
checkpoint inhibitors (CPIs) in patients with cancer. CBM588 is a bifidogenic live bacterial …

Hallmarks of response, resistance, and toxicity to immune checkpoint blockade

G Morad, BA Helmink, P Sharma, JA Wargo - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Unprecedented advances have been made in cancer treatment with the use of immune
checkpoint blockade (ICB). However, responses are limited to a subset of patients, and …

A non-antibiotic-disrupted gut microbiome is associated with clinical responses to CD19-CAR-T cell cancer immunotherapy

CK Stein-Thoeringer, NY Saini, E Zamir… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Increasing evidence suggests that the gut microbiome may modulate the efficacy of cancer
immunotherapy. In a B cell lymphoma patient cohort from five centers in Germany and the …

Multimodal integration of radiology, pathology and genomics for prediction of response to PD-(L) 1 blockade in patients with non-small cell lung cancer

RS Vanguri, J Luo, AT Aukerman, JV Egger, CJ Fong… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Immunotherapy is used to treat almost all patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer
(NSCLC); however, identifying robust predictive biomarkers remains challenging. Here we …

The microbiome and human cancer

GD Sepich-Poore, L Zitvogel, R Straussman, J Hasty… - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Historical accounts linking cancer and microbes date as early as four
millennia ago. After establishment of the germ theory of infectious diseases, clinical research …

Immune checkpoint inhibitors for the treatment of cancer: clinical impact and mechanisms of response and resistance

S Bagchi, R Yuan, EG Engleman - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have made an indelible mark in the field of cancer
immunotherapy. Starting with the approval of anti-cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated protein …