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 …

Radiotherapy combined with immunotherapy: the dawn of cancer treatment

Z Zhang, X Liu, D Chen, J Yu - Signal Transduction and Targeted …, 2022 - nature.com
Radiotherapy (RT) is delivered for purposes of local control, but can also exert systemic
effect on remote and non-irradiated tumor deposits, which is called abscopal effect. The view …

Antigen presentation in cancer: insights into tumour immunogenicity and immune evasion

S Jhunjhunwala, C Hammer, L Delamarre - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint blockade, which blocks inhibitory signals of T cell activation, has shown
tremendous success in treating cancer, although success still remains limited to a fraction of …

Improving head and neck cancer therapies by immunomodulation of the tumour microenvironment

AT Ruffin, H Li, L Vujanovic, DP Zandberg… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Targeted immunotherapy has improved patient survival in head and neck squamous cell
carcinoma (HNSCC), but less than 20% of patients produce a durable response to these …

Natural killer cell homing and trafficking in tissues and tumors: from biology to application

GH Ran, YQ Lin, L Tian, T Zhang, DM Yan… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells, a subgroup of innate lymphoid cells, act as the first line of defense
against cancer. Although some evidence shows that NK cells can develop in secondary …

Harnessing natural killer cells for cancer immunotherapy: dispatching the first responders

NA Maskalenko, D Zhigarev… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells have crucial roles in the innate immunosurveillance of cancer and
viral infections. They are 'first responders' that can spontaneously recognize abnormal cells …

Immunobiology and immunotherapy of HCC: spotlight on innate and innate-like immune cells

B Ruf, B Heinrich, TF Greten - Cellular & molecular immunology, 2021 - nature.com
Immune-based therapies such as immune checkpoint inhibitors have revolutionized the
systemic treatment of various cancer types. The therapeutic application of monoclonal …

Circulating tumor cell-blood cell crosstalk: Biology and clinical relevance

T Pereira-Veiga, S Schneegans, K Pantel, H Wikman - Cell Reports, 2022 - cell.com
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are the seeds of distant metastasis, and the number of CTCs
detected in the blood of cancer patients is associated with a worse prognosis. CTCs face …

Exploiting innate immunity for cancer immunotherapy

M Yi, T Li, M Niu, Q Mei, B Zhao, Q Chu, Z Dai, K Wu - Molecular cancer, 2023 - Springer
Immunotherapies have revolutionized the treatment paradigms of various types of cancers.
However, most of these immunomodulatory strategies focus on harnessing adaptive …

Memory-like NK cells armed with a neoepitope-specific CAR exhibit potent activity against NPM1 mutated acute myeloid leukemia

H Dong, JD Ham, G Hu, G Xie… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) remains a therapeutic challenge, and a paucity of tumor-
specific targets has significantly hampered the development of effective immune-based …