CD4 T-cell exhaustion: does it exist and what are its roles in cancer?

AM Miggelbrink, JD Jackson, SJ Lorrey… - Clinical Cancer …, 2021 - AACR
In chronic infections and in cancer, persistent antigen stimulation under suboptimal
conditions can lead to the induction of T-cell exhaustion. Exhausted T cells are …

Cancer immunoediting and immune dysregulation in multiple myeloma

K Nakamura, MJ Smyth… - Blood, The Journal of the …, 2020 - ashpublications.org
Avoiding immune destruction is a hallmark of cancer. Over the past few years, significant
advances have been made in understanding immune dysfunction and immunosuppression …

[HTML][HTML] LAG-3 blockade with relatlimab (BMS-986016) restores anti-leukemic responses in chronic lymphocytic leukemia

C Sordo-Bahamonde, S Lorenzo-Herrero… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), the most frequent B cell
malignancy in western countries, develop a progressive immunosuppression, leading to …

[HTML][HTML] Multiple myeloma therapy: emerging trends and challenges

D Dima, D Jiang, DJ Singh, M Hasipek, HS Shah… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Multiple myeloma (MM) is a frequent hematological malignancy
characterized by the uncontrolled growth of clonal plasma cells, primarily in the bone …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting LAG3/GAL-3 to overcome immunosuppression and enhance anti-tumor immune responses in multiple myeloma

J Bae, F Accardi, T Hideshima, YT Tai, R Prabhala… - Leukemia, 2022 - nature.com
Immune profiling in patients with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance
(MGUS), smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM), and multiple myeloma (MM) provides the …

[HTML][HTML] Immune-based therapies in the management of multiple myeloma

S Zanwar, B Nandakumar, S Kumar - Blood cancer journal, 2020 - nature.com
Multiple myeloma (MM) is a clonal plasma cell malignancy affecting a predominantly elderly
population. The continued development of newer therapies with novel mechanisms of action …

Bispecific T‐cell engagers for treatment of multiple myeloma

G Ravi, LJ Costa - American Journal of Hematology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bispecific T cell engagers (TCE) derive from monoclonal antibodies and concomitantly
engage a target on the surface of cancer cell and CD3 on the surface of T‐cells. TCEs …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting NK cell inhibitory receptors for precision multiple myeloma immunotherapy

H Alfarra, J Weir, S Grieve, T Reiman - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Innate immune surveillance of cancer involves multiple types of immune cells including the
innate lymphoid cells (ILCs). Natural killer (NK) cells are considered the most active ILC …

[HTML][HTML] NK cells enhance CAR-T cell antitumor efficacy by enhancing immune/tumor cells cluster formation and improving CAR-T cell fitness

M Bachiller, L Perez-Amill, AM Battram… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell immunotherapy has modified the
concept of treatment in hematological malignancies. In comparison with pediatric patients …

Microenvironment immune reconstitution patterns correlate with outcomes after autologous transplant in multiple myeloma

H Parmar, M Gertz, EI Anderson, S Kumar… - Blood …, 2021 - ashpublications.org
The immediate postautologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) period in multiple myeloma
represents a unique opportunity for long-term disease control because many patients have …