Signal pathways of melanoma and targeted therapy

W Guo, H Wang, C Li - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Melanoma is the most lethal skin cancer that originates from the malignant transformation of
melanocytes. Although melanoma has long been regarded as a cancerous malignancy with …

Small-molecule inhibitors, immune checkpoint inhibitors, and more: FDA-approved novel therapeutic drugs for solid tumors from 1991 to 2021

Q Wu, W Qian, X Sun, S Jiang - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) has always been a
forerunner in drug evaluation and supervision. Over the past 31 years, 1050 drugs …

PD-L1 as a biomarker of response to immune-checkpoint inhibitors

DB Doroshow, S Bhalla, MB Beasley… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2021 - nature.com
Immune-checkpoint inhibitors targeting PD-1 or PD-L1 have already substantially improved
the outcomes of patients with many types of cancer, although only 20–40% of patients derive …

T cell characteristics associated with toxicity to immune checkpoint blockade in patients with melanoma

AX Lozano, AA Chaudhuri, A Nene, A Bacchiocchi… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Severe immune-related adverse events (irAEs) occur in up to 60% of patients with
melanoma treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). However, it is unknown whether …

Regulatory mechanisms of immune checkpoints PD-L1 and CTLA-4 in cancer

H Zhang, Z Dai, W Wu, Z Wang, N Zhang… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - Springer
The cytotoxic T-lymphocyte–associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4)/B7 and programmed death 1
(PD-1)/programmed cell death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) are two most representative immune …

Clinical cancer immunotherapy: Current progress and prospects

C Liu, M Yang, D Zhang, M Chen, D Zhu - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Immune checkpoint therapy via PD-1 antibodies has shown exciting clinical value and
robust therapeutic potential in clinical practice. It can significantly improve progression-free …

[HTML][HTML] A guide to cancer immunotherapy: from T cell basic science to clinical practice

AD Waldman, JM Fritz, MJ Lenardo - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2020 - nature.com
The T lymphocyte, especially its capacity for antigen-directed cytotoxicity, has become a
central focus for engaging the immune system in the fight against cancer. Basic science …

A phase Ib trial of personalized neoantigen therapy plus anti-PD-1 in patients with advanced melanoma, non-small cell lung cancer, or bladder cancer

PA Ott, S Hu-Lieskovan, B Chmielowski, R Govindan… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Neoantigens arise from mutations in cancer cells and are important targets of T cell-
mediated anti-tumor immunity. Here, we report the first open-label, phase Ib clinical trial of a …

NCCN Guidelines® insights: melanoma: cutaneous, version 2.2021: featured updates to the NCCN guidelines

SM Swetter, JA Thompson, MR Albertini… - Journal of the National …, 2021 - jnccn.org
Over the past few years, the NCCN Guidelines for Melanoma: Cutaneous have been
expanded to include pathways for treatment of microscopic satellitosis (added in v2. 2020) …

Managing metastatic melanoma in 2022: a clinical review

B Switzer, I Puzanov, JJ Skitzki, L Hamad… - JCO oncology …, 2022 - ascopubs.org
Cutaneous melanoma remains the most lethal of the primary cutaneous neoplasms, and
although the incidence of primary melanoma continues to rise, the mortality from metastatic …