CD8+ T cells in the cancer-immunity cycle

JR Giles, AM Globig, SM Kaech, EJ Wherry - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
CD8+ T cells are end effectors of cancer immunity. Most forms of effective cancer
immunotherapy involve CD8+ T cell effector function. Here, we review the current …

Stem-like exhausted and memory CD8+ T cells in cancer

T Gebhardt, SL Park, IA Parish - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
T cells can acquire a broad spectrum of differentiation states following activation. At the
extreme ends of this continuum are short-lived cells equipped with effector machinery and …

Forks in the road for CAR T and CAR NK cell cancer therapies

OK Dagher, AD Posey Jr - Nature Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
The advent of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has resulted in unprecedented
long-term clearance of relapse/refractory hematological malignancies in both pediatric and …

Therapeutic cancer vaccines: advancements, challenges, and prospects

T Fan, M Zhang, J Yang, Z Zhu, W Cao… - Signal Transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
With the development and regulatory approval of immune checkpoint inhibitors and adoptive
cell therapies, cancer immunotherapy has undergone a profound transformation over the …

Computational immunogenomic approaches to predict response to cancer immunotherapies

V Addala, F Newell, JV Pearson, A Redwood… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Cancer immunogenomics is an emerging field that bridges genomics and immunology. The
establishment of large-scale genomic collaborative efforts along with the development of …

Lymph nodes: at the intersection of cancer treatment and progression

NE Reticker-Flynn, EG Engleman - Trends in Cell Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Metastasis to lymph nodes (LNs) is a common feature of disease progression in most solid
organ malignancies. Consequently, LN biopsy and lymphadenectomy are common clinical …

Timing of anti–PD-L1 antibody initiation affects efficacy/toxicity of CD19 CAR T-cell therapy for large B-cell lymphoma

AV Hirayama, EL Kimble, JH Wright… - Blood …, 2024 - ashpublications.org
More than half of the patients treated with CD19-targeted chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-
cell immunotherapy for large B-cell lymphoma (LBCL) do not achieve durable remission …

Neoadjuvant immune checkpoint blockade in women with mismatch repair deficient endometrial cancer: a phase I study

AL Eerkens, K Brummel, A Vledder, ST Paijens… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Neoadjuvant immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) has shown unprecedented activity in
mismatch repair deficient (MMRd) colorectal cancers, but its effectiveness in MMRd …

[HTML][HTML] The tumor-draining lymph node as a reservoir for systemic immune surveillance

I Delclaux, KS Ventre, D Jones, AW Lund - Trends in Cancer, 2023 - cell.com
Early in solid tumor development, antigens are presented in tumor-draining lymph nodes
(tdLNs), a process that is necessary to set up immune surveillance. Recent evidence …

The Multifaceted Role of Tissue-Resident Memory T Cells

SN Christo, SL Park, SN Mueller… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Regionalized immune surveillance relies on the concerted efforts of diverse memory T cell
populations. Of these, tissue-resident memory T (TRM) cells are strategically positioned in …