Immune-checkpoint inhibitors: long-term implications of toxicity

DB Johnson, CA Nebhan, JJ Moslehi… - Nature Reviews Clinical …, 2022 - nature.com
The development of immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) has heralded a new era in cancer
treatment, enabling the possibility of long-term survival in patients with metastatic disease …

Immune checkpoint inhibitors in melanoma

MS Carlino, J Larkin, GV Long - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Immune checkpoint inhibitors target the dysfunctional immune system, to induce cancer-cell
killing by CD8-positive T cells. Immune checkpoint inhibitors, specifically anti-CTLA4 and …

Immune-related adverse events and the balancing act of immunotherapy

M Conroy, J Naidoo - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
The benefit from immune checkpoint inhibitors is tempered by immunologic toxicities, which
involve diverse organs, have varying biology, onset time, and severity. Herein, we identify …

Adjuvant pembrolizumab versus placebo in resected stage III melanoma (EORTC 1325-MG/KEYNOTE-054): distant metastasis-free survival results from a double …

AMM Eggermont, CU Blank, M Mandalà… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Summary Background The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer
(EORTC) 1325/KEYNOTE-054 trial assessed pembrolizumab versus placebo in patients …

Insights from a 30-year journey: function, regulation and therapeutic modulation of PD1

K Chamoto, T Yaguchi, M Tajima, T Honjo - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
PD1 was originally discovered in 1992 as a molecule associated with activation-induced cell
death in T cells. Over the past 30 years, it was found that PD1 has a critical role in avoiding …

Immune-related toxicities of checkpoint inhibitors: mechanisms and mitigation strategies

RJ Sullivan, JS Weber - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2022 - nature.com
The immune-related adverse events associated with treatment with immune checkpoint
inhibitors result in significant morbidity for patients as well as considerable cost to the health …

Germline variants associated with toxicity to immune checkpoint blockade

S Groha, SA Alaiwi, W Xu, V Naranbhai, AH Nassar… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have yielded remarkable responses but often lead to
immune-related adverse events (irAEs). Although germline causes for irAEs have been …

Survival and biomarker analyses from the OpACIN-neo and OpACIN neoadjuvant immunotherapy trials in stage III melanoma

EA Rozeman, EP Hoefsmit, ILM Reijers, RPM Saw… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Neoadjuvant ipilimumab plus nivolumab showed high pathologic response rates (pRRs) in
patients with macroscopic stage III melanoma in the phase 1b OpACIN (NCT02437279) and …

Ketogenic diet promotes tumor ferroptosis but induces relative corticosterone deficiency that accelerates cachexia

M Ferrer, N Mourikis, EE Davidson, SO Kleeman… - Cell metabolism, 2023 - cell.com
Glucose dependency of cancer cells can be targeted with a high-fat, low-carbohydrate
ketogenic diet (KD). However, in IL-6-producing cancers, suppression of the hepatic …

Association between immune-related side effects and efficacy and benefit of immune checkpoint inhibitors–a systematic review and meta-analysis

S Hussaini, R Chehade, RG Boldt, J Raphael… - Cancer Treatment …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The use of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) has become standard therapy in
many tumor sites. The aim of this study is to systematically review the literature to determine …