Turning cold tumors hot: from molecular mechanisms to clinical applications

J Zhang, D Huang, PE Saw, E Song - Trends in immunology, 2022 - cell.com
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapies have achieved clinical benefit, but most
'immune-cold'solid tumors are not responsive. The diversity of immune evasion mechanisms …

Cancer immunotherapy update: FDA-approved checkpoint inhibitors and companion diagnostics

JD Twomey, B Zhang - The AAPS journal, 2021 - Springer
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are considered a new standard-of-care across many
cancer indications. This review provides an update on ICIs approved by the Food and Drug …

Neoadjuvant therapy with immune checkpoint blockade, antiangiogenesis, and chemotherapy for locally advanced gastric cancer

S Li, W Yu, F Xie, H Luo, Z Liu, W Lv, D Shi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Despite neoadjuvant/conversion chemotherapy, the prognosis of cT4a/bN+ gastric cancer is
poor. Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) and antiangiogenic agents have shown activity in …

[HTML][HTML] High tumor mutation burden fails to predict immune checkpoint blockade response across all cancer types

DJ McGrail, PG Pilié, NU Rashid, L Voorwerk… - Annals of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background High tumor mutation burden (TMB-H) has been proposed as a predictive
biomarker for response to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB), largely due to the potential for …

Network-based machine learning approach to predict immunotherapy response in cancer patients

JH Kong, D Ha, J Lee, I Kim, M Park, SH Im… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have substantially improved the survival of cancer
patients over the past several years. However, only a minority of patients respond to ICI …

[HTML][HTML] First-line nivolumab plus ipilimumab versus chemotherapy in patients with unresectable malignant pleural mesothelioma: 3-year outcomes from CheckMate …

S Peters, A Scherpereel, R Cornelissen, Y Oulkhouir… - Annals of oncology, 2022 - Elsevier
Background In the phase III CheckMate 743 study (NCT02899299), first-line nivolumab plus
ipilimumab significantly improved overall survival (OS) versus chemotherapy in patients with …

ATR-mediated CD47 and PD-L1 up-regulation restricts radiotherapy-induced immune priming and abscopal responses in colorectal cancer

RCE Hsieh, S Krishnan, RC Wu, AR Boda, A Liu… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Radiotherapy (RT) of colorectal cancer (CRC) can prime adaptive immunity against tumor-
associated antigen (TAA)–expressing CRC cells systemically. However, abscopal tumor …

Leveraging the replication stress response to optimize cancer therapy

E Cybulla, A Vindigni - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
High-fidelity DNA replication is critical for the faithful transmission of genetic information to
daughter cells. Following genotoxic stress, specialized DNA damage tolerance pathways …

Highly aneuploid non-small cell lung cancer shows enhanced responsiveness to concurrent radiation and immune checkpoint blockade

LF Spurr, CA Martinez, W Kang, M Chen, Y Zha… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Over 500 clinical trials are investigating combination radiotherapy and immune checkpoint
blockade (ICB) as cancer treatments; however, the majority of trials have found no positive …

Association of machine learning–based assessment of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes on standard histologic images with outcomes of immunotherapy in patients with …

M Rakaee, E Adib, B Ricciuti, LM Sholl, W Shi… - JAMA …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Currently, predictive biomarkers for response to immune checkpoint inhibitor
(ICI) therapy in lung cancer are limited. Identifying such biomarkers would be useful to refine …