Therapy resistance: opportunities created by adaptive responses to targeted therapies in cancer

M Labrie, JS Brugge, GB Mills… - Nature reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Normal cells explore multiple states to survive stresses encountered during development
and self-renewal as well as environmental stresses such as starvation, DNA damage, toxins …

Cutting-edge: Preclinical and clinical development of the first approved lag-3 inhibitor

L Chocarro, A Bocanegra, E Blanco… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have revolutionized medical practice in oncology since
the FDA approval of the first ICI 11 years ago. In light of this, Lymphocyte-Activation Gene 3 …

Soluble PD-L1 and circulating CD8+ PD-1+ and NK cells enclose a prognostic and predictive immune effector score in immunotherapy treated NSCLC patients

G Mazzaschi, R Minari, A Zecca, A Cavazzoni, V Ferri… - Lung Cancer, 2020 - Elsevier
Introduction Upfront criteria to foresee immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) efficacy are far
from being identified. Thus, we integrated blood descriptors of pro-inflammatory …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing clinical and immunological effects of anti-PD-1 with belapectin, a galectin-3 inhibitor

BD Curti, Y Koguchi, RS Leidner, AS Rolig… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background PD-1/PD-L1 engagement and overexpression of galectin-3 (Gal-3) are critical
mechanisms of tumor-induced immune suppression that contribute to immunotherapy …

A signal-seeking Phase 2 study of olaparib and durvalumab in advanced solid cancers with homologous recombination repair gene alterations

S Thavaneswaran, M Kansara, F Lin… - British Journal of …, 2023 - nature.com
Purpose To determine the safety and efficacy of PARP plus PD-L1 inhibition (olaparib+
durvalumab, O+ D) in patients with advanced solid, predominantly rare cancers harbouring …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical significance of plasma-free amino acids and tryptophan metabolites in patients with non-small cell lung cancer receiving PD-1 inhibitor: a pilot cohort …

K Azuma, H Xiang, T Tagami, R Kasajima… - … for ImmunoTherapy of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Amino acid metabolism is essential for tumor cell proliferation and regulation of
immune cell function. However, the clinical significance of free amino acids (plasma-free …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting myeloid-derived suppressor cells for cancer therapy

H Tang, H Li, Z Sun - Cancer biology & medicine, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The emergence and clinical application of immunotherapy is considered a promising
breakthrough in cancer treatment. According to the literature, immune checkpoint blockade …

Challenges and the evolving landscape of assessing blood-based PD-L1 expression as a biomarker for anti-PD-(L) 1 immunotherapy

T Wang, D Denman, SM Bacot, GM Feldman - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
While promising, PD-L1 expression on tumor tissues as assessed by immunohistochemistry
has been shown to be an imperfect biomarker that only applies to a limited number of …

[HTML][HTML] Regorafenib enhances antitumor immune efficacy of anti-PD-L1 immunotherapy on oral squamous cell carcinoma

IT Chiang, YH Lee, ZL Tan, FT Hsu, HF Tu - Biomedicine & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Oral squamous cells carcinoma (OSCC) is the most common oral malignancy that majorly
originated from oral cavity. Though the prognostic and predictive value of targeting …

Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell, Slan+-Monocyte and Natural Killer Cell Counts Function as Blood Cell-Based Biomarkers for Predicting Responses to Immune …

F Pettinella, C Lattanzi, M Donini, E Caveggion… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The advent of therapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) has
determined a significant survival benefit in patients with non-small cell lung cancer …