Pancreatic cancer and immunotherapy: a clinical overview

FEF Timmer, B Geboers, S Nieuwenhuizen, M Dijkstra… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is an aggressive cancer with a
dismal prognosis. While immunotherapy has been deemed a breakthrough treatment for …

The role of immunotherapy in pancreatic cancer

R Mukherji, D Debnath, ML Hartley, MS Noel - Current Oncology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma remains one of the most lethal cancers globally, with a
significant need for improved therapeutic options. While the recent breakthroughs of …

Exploiting the neoantigen landscape for immunotherapy of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

P Bailey, DK Chang, MA Forget, FAS Lucas… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Immunotherapy approaches for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) have met with
limited success. It has been postulated that a low mutation load may lead to a paucity of T …

Strategies for increasing pancreatic tumor immunogenicity

BA Johnson III, M Yarchoan, V Lee, DA Laheru… - Clinical Cancer …, 2017 - AACR
Immunotherapy has changed the standard of care for multiple deadly cancers, including
lung, head and neck, gastric, and some colorectal cancers. However, single-agent …

Targeting tumor immunosuppressive microenvironment for pancreatic cancer immunotherapy: Current research and future perspective

Y Li, S Xiang, W Pan, J Wang, H Zhan, S Liu - Frontiers in Oncology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most malignant tumors with increased incidence rate. The
effect of surgery combined with chemoradiotherapy on survival of patients is unsatisfactory …

Targeting the metabolism and immune system in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: Insights and future directions

DS Reddy, S Sarvesh, B Farran, GP Nagaraju… - Cytokine & Growth …, 2023 - Elsevier
Pancreatic cancer, specifically pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), presents a
challenging landscape due to its complex nature and the highly immunosuppressive tumor …

Trial watch: Dendritic cell-based interventions for cancer therapy

L Galluzzi, L Senovilla, E Vacchelli, A Eggermont… - …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Dendritic cells (DCs) occupy a central position in the immune system, orchestrating a wide
repertoire of responses that span from the development of self-tolerance to the elicitation of …

Emerging trends in the immunotherapy of pancreatic cancer

K Banerjee, S Kumar, KA Ross, S Gautam, B Poelaert… - Cancer letters, 2018 - Elsevier
Pancreatic cancer (PC) is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the US,
claiming approximately 43,000 lives every year. Much like other solid tumors, PC evades the …

A phase Ib study of the combination of personalized autologous dendritic cell vaccine, aspirin, and standard of care adjuvant chemotherapy followed by nivolumab for …

M Bassani-Sternberg, A Digklia, F Huber… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Despite the promising therapeutic effects of immune checkpoint blockade (ICB), most
patients with solid tumors treated with anti-PD-1/PD-L1 monotherapy do not achieve …

The clinical terrain of immunotherapies in heterogeneous pancreatic cancer: Unravelling challenges and opportunities

M Herpels, J Ishihara… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the most common and aggressive type of
pancreatic cancer and has abysmal survival rates. In the past two decades …