Predictive biomarkers of colon cancer immunotherapy: Present and future

W Hou, C Yi, H Zhu - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Immunotherapy has revolutionized colon cancer treatment. Immune checkpoint inhibitors
(ICIs) have shown clinical benefits for colon cancer patients, especially those with high …

Liquid biopsies to monitor and direct cancer treatment in colorectal cancer

G Mauri, PP Vitiello, A Sogari, G Crisafulli… - British Journal of …, 2022 - nature.com
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most prevalent and deadly cancers worldwide.
Despite recent improvements in treatment and prevention, most of the current therapeutic …

The status of tumor mutational burden and immunotherapy

V Anagnostou, A Bardelli, TA Chan, S Turajlic - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Tumor mutational burden (TMB) has received significant attention within ongoing pursuits of
biomarkers of response to immune checkpoint inhibitors, and notably received FDA …

Lynch syndrome and MSI-H cancers: from mechanisms to “off-the-shelf” cancer vaccines

V Roudko, C Cimen Bozkus, B Greenbaum… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Defective DNA mismatch repair (dMMR) is associated with many cancer types including
colon, gastric, endometrial, ovarian, hepatobiliary tract, urinary tract, brain and skin cancers …

Immune escape and resistance to immunotherapy in mismatch repair deficient tumors

G Mestrallet, M Brown, CC Bozkus… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Up to 30% of colorectal, endometrial and gastric cancers have a deficiency in mismatch
repair (MMR) protein expression due to either germline or epigenetic inactivation. Patients …

Latest evidence on immune checkpoint inhibitors in metastatic colorectal cancer: A 2022 update

AE Boukouris, M Theochari, D Stefanou… - Critical reviews in …, 2022 - Elsevier
The long-term remissions induced by immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in many types of
cancers have opened up the possibility of a broader use of immunotherapy in less …

Avelumab vs standard second-line chemotherapy in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer and microsatellite instability: a randomized clinical trial

J Taïeb, O Bouche, T André, K Le Malicot… - JAMA …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Only 1 randomized clinical trial has shown the superiority of immune checkpoint
inhibitors in patients with deficient mismatch repair and/or microsatellite instability …

The hippo pathway effectors YAP/TAZ-TEAD oncoproteins as emerging therapeutic targets in the tumor microenvironment

RB Mokhtari, N Ashayeri, L Baghaie, M Sambi, K Satari… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary YAP/TAZ are the central effectors of the Hippo pathway and orchestrate
their oncogenic program by binding to TEAD transcriptional factors. Here, we document a …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering neoantigen vaccines to improve cancer personalized immunotherapy

Z Liu, J Lv, Q Dang, L Liu, S Weng, L Wang… - … journal of biological …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Immunotherapy treatments harnessing the immune system herald a new era of personalized
medicine, offering considerable benefits for cancer patients. Over the past years, tumor …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic and pharmacological modulation of DNA mismatch repair heterogeneous tumors promotes immune surveillance

V Amodio, S Lamba, R Chilà, CM Cattaneo, B Mussolin… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Patients affected by colorectal cancer (CRC) with DNA mismatch repair deficiency (MMRd),
often respond to immune checkpoint blockade therapies, while those with mismatch repair …