The immune contexture in cancer prognosis and treatment

WH Fridman, L Zitvogel, C Sautès–Fridman… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2017 - nature.com
Immunotherapy is currently the most rapidly advancing area of clinical oncology, and
provides the unprecedented opportunity to effectively treat, and even cure, several …

Photodynamic therapy for metastatic melanoma treatment: A review

C Naidoo, CA Kruger… - Technology in cancer …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This review article is based on specifically targeted nanoparticles that have been used in the
treatment of melanoma. According to the Skin Cancer Foundation, within 2017 an estimated …

[HTML][HTML] Conserved pan-cancer microenvironment subtypes predict response to immunotherapy

A Bagaev, N Kotlov, K Nomie, V Svekolkin, A Gafurov… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
The clinical use of molecular targeted therapy is rapidly evolving but has primarily focused
on genomic alterations. Transcriptomic analysis offers an opportunity to dissect the …

Tumor-intrinsic YTHDF1 drives immune evasion and resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors via promoting MHC-I degradation

W Lin, L Chen, H Zhang, X Qiu, Q Huang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The recently described role of RNA methylation in regulating immune cell infiltration into
tumors has attracted interest, given its potential impact on immunotherapy response …

Mutational and putative neoantigen load predict clinical benefit of adoptive T cell therapy in melanoma

M Lauss, M Donia, K Harbst, R Andersen… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Adoptive T-cell therapy (ACT) is a highly intensive immunotherapy regime that has yielded
remarkable response rates and many durable responses in clinical trials in melanoma; …

Immune cell gene signatures for profiling the microenvironment of solid tumors

AJ Nirmal, T Regan, BB Shih, DA Hume, AH Sims… - Cancer immunology …, 2018 - AACR
The immune composition of the tumor microenvironment regulates processes including
angiogenesis, metastasis, and the response to drugs or immunotherapy. To facilitate the …

Stepwise-edited, human melanoma models reveal mutations' effect on tumor and microenvironment

E Hodis, ET Triglia, JYH Kwon, T Biancalani, LR Zakka… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Establishing causal relationships between genetic alterations of human cancers and specific
phenotypes of malignancy remains a challenge. We sequentially introduced mutations into …

MITF and c-Jun antagonism interconnects melanoma dedifferentiation with pro-inflammatory cytokine responsiveness and myeloid cell recruitment

S Riesenberg, A Groetchen, R Siddaway, T Bald… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Inflammation promotes phenotypic plasticity in melanoma, a source of non-genetic
heterogeneity, but the molecular framework is poorly understood. Here we use functional …

Pyroptosis-related gene signatures can robustly diagnose skin cutaneous melanoma and predict the prognosis

A Ju, J Tang, S Chen, Y Fu, Y Luo - Frontiers in oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Skin cutaneous melanoma (SKCM) is a chronically malignant tumor with a high mortality
rate. Pyroptosis, a kind of pro-inflammatory programmed cell death, has been linked to …

NF1‐mutated melanoma tumors harbor distinct clinical and biological characteristics

H Cirenajwis, M Lauss, H Ekedahl… - Molecular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In general, melanoma can be considered as a UV‐driven disease with an aggressive
metastatic course and high mutational load, with only few tumors (acral, mucosal, and uveal …