Resistance to immune checkpoint therapies by tumour-induced T-cell desertification and exclusion: key mechanisms, prognostication and new therapeutic …

MM Wang, SE Coupland, T Aittokallio… - British Journal of …, 2023 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint therapies (ICT) can reinvigorate the effector functions of anti-tumour T
cells, improving cancer patient outcomes. Anti-tumour T cells are initially formed during their …

Cancer chemotherapy: insights into cellular and tumor microenvironmental mechanisms of action

CM Tilsed, SA Fisher, AK Nowak, RA Lake… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Chemotherapy has historically been the mainstay of cancer treatment, but our
understanding of what drives a successful therapeutic response remains limited. The …

The immunology of hepatocellular carcinoma

G Lawal, Y Xiao, AA Rahnemai-Azar, DI Tsilimigras… - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Liver cancer is the third leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Hepatocellular carcinoma
(HCC) is the most common primary malignant tumor of the liver. Liver resection or …

Immunotherapy approaches for malignant pleural mesothelioma

DA Fennell, S Dulloo, J Harber - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2022 - nature.com
Over the past decade, immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have revolutionized the treatment
of cancer. In mesothelioma, a rare cancer with a dismal prognosis generally caused by …

[HTML][HTML] The schedule of ATR inhibitor AZD6738 can potentiate or abolish antitumor immune responses to radiotherapy

FP Vendetti, P Pandya, DA Clump… - JCI insight, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Inhibitors of the DNA damage signaling kinase ATR increase tumor cell killing by
chemotherapies that target DNA replication forks but also kill rapidly proliferating immune …

Comprehensive analysis of immune cell enrichment in the tumor microenvironment of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

I Mito, H Takahashi, R Kawabata-Iwakawa, S Ida… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Head and neck squamous carcinoma (HNSCC) is highly infiltrated by immune cells,
including tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and myeloid lineage cells. In the tumor …

Intracellular Salmonella delivery of an exogenous immunization antigen refocuses CD8 T cells against cancer cells, eliminates pancreatic tumors and forms antitumor …

V Raman, LM Howell, SMK Bloom, CL Hall… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Immunotherapies have shown great promise, but are not effective for all tumors
types and are effective in less than 3% of patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas …

[HTML][HTML] Matter of TIME: the tumor-immune microenvironment of mesothelioma and implications for checkpoint blockade efficacy

J Harber, T Kamata, C Pritchard… - … for ImmunoTherapy of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is an incurable cancer with a dismal prognosis and
few effective treatment options. Nonetheless, recent positive phase III trial results for immune …

Inhalant cannabidiol inhibits glioblastoma progression through regulation of tumor microenvironment

H Khodadadi, ÉL Salles, A Alptekin… - Cannabis and …, 2023 - liebertpub.com
Introduction: Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common invasive brain tumor composed of
diverse cell types with poor prognosis. The highly complex tumor microenvironment (TME) …

CD4+ T cells drive an inflammatory, TNF-α/IFN-rich tumor microenvironment responsive to chemotherapy

CM Tilsed, N Principe, J Kidman, WL Chin… - Cell Reports, 2022 - cell.com
While chemotherapy remains the first-line treatment for many cancers, it is still unclear what
distinguishes responders from non-responders. Here, we characterize the chemotherapy …