The immune landscape of prostate cancer and nomination of PD-L2 as a potential therapeutic target

SG Zhao, J Lehrer, SL Chang, R Das… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background Immunotherapy has been less successful in treating prostate cancer than other
solid tumors. We sought to better understand the immune landscape in prostate cancer and …

Immune response drives outcomes in prostate cancer: Implications for immunotherapy

J Meng, Y Zhou, X Lu, Z Bian, Y Chen… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The heterogeneity of the immune microenvironment leads to different responses in immune
checkpoint blockade therapy. We aimed to propose a robust molecular classification system …

The immune checkpoint regulator PD-L1 is highly expressed in aggressive primary prostate cancer

H Gevensleben, D Dietrich, C Golletz, S Steiner… - Clinical Cancer …, 2016 - AACR
Purpose: Therapies targeting the programmed death 1 (PD-1)/programmed death ligand 1
(PD-L1) pathway promote anti-tumor immunity and have shown promising results in various …

Paucity of PD-L1 expression in prostate cancer: innate and adaptive immune resistance

AM Martin, TR Nirschl, CJ Nirschl, BJ Francica… - Prostate cancer and …, 2015 - nature.com
BACKGROUND: Primary prostate cancers are infiltrated with programmed death-1 (PD-1)
expressing CD8+ T-cells. However, in early clinical trials, men with metastatic castrate …

PD-L1 expression and CD8+ T-cell infiltrate are associated with clinical progression in patients with node-positive prostate cancer

F Petitprez, N Fossati, Y Vano, M Freschi, E Becht… - European urology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Prostate cancer (PCa) patients with lymph node invasion at radical prostatectomy are at
higher risk of tumor recurrence and receive immediate androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) …

The tumor immune contexture of prostate cancer

N Vitkin, S Nersesian, DR Siemens, M Koti - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
One in seven men in North America is expected to be diagnosed with prostate cancer (PCa)
during their lifetime (,). While a wide range of treatment options including surgery, radiation …

The roles of PD-1/PD-L1 in the prognosis and immunotherapy of prostate cancer

Y Xu, G Song, S Xie, W Jiang, X Chen, M Chu, X Hu… - Molecular Therapy, 2021 - cell.com
Multiple studies have confirmed that programmed cell death 1/programmed cell death ligand-
1 (PD-1/PD-L1) and immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) targeting PD-1/PD-L1 play pivotal …

How to turn up the heat on the cold immune microenvironment of metastatic prostate cancer

J Stultz, L Fong - Prostate cancer and prostatic diseases, 2021 - nature.com
Background Advanced prostate cancer remains one of the most common and deadly
cancers, despite advances in treatment options. Immunotherapy has provided little benefit to …

Immunotherapy in prostate cancer

EK Fay, JN Graff - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Immunotherapy encompasses a wide range of therapies to engage the immune system to
target malignancies. In recent years, immunotherapy has made a major impact on treatment …

The tumor microenvironment and immune responses in prostate cancer patients

JTW Kwon, RJ Bryant… - Endocrine-Related …, 2021 - erc.bioscientifica.com
The landscape of cancer treatment has been transformed over the past decade by the
success of immune-targeting therapies. However, despite sipuleucel-T being the first-ever …