Exploring immunotherapy in colorectal cancer

J Weng, S Li, Z Zhu, Q Liu, R Zhang, Y Yang… - Journal of hematology & …, 2022 - Springer
Chemotherapy combined with or without targeted therapy is the fundamental treatment for
metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC). Due to the adverse effects of chemotherapeutic drugs …

Clinical trial design in the era of precision medicine

E Fountzilas, AM Tsimberidou, HH Vo, R Kurzrock - Genome medicine, 2022 - Springer
Recent rapid biotechnological breakthroughs have led to the identification of complex and
unique molecular features that drive malignancies. Precision medicine has exploited next …

Tumor mutational burden as a predictive biomarker in solid tumors

D Sha, Z Jin, J Budczies, K Kluck, A Stenzinger… - Cancer discovery, 2020 - AACR
Tumor mutational burden (TMB), defined as the number of somatic mutations per megabase
of interrogated genomic sequence, varies across malignancies. Panel sequencing–based …

Comprehensive review of targeted therapy for colorectal cancer

YH Xie, YX Chen, JY Fang - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2020 - nature.com
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is among the most lethal and prevalent malignancies in the world
and was responsible for nearly 881,000 cancer-related deaths in 2018. Surgery and …

Regorafenib plus nivolumab in patients with advanced gastric or colorectal cancer: an open-label, dose-escalation, and dose-expansion phase Ib trial (REGONIVO …

S Fukuoka, H Hara, N Takahashi, T Kojima… - Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE This is a phase Ib trial of regorafenib plus nivolumab for gastric and colorectal
cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS Enrolled patients received regorafenib plus nivolumab …

Molecular mechanisms of colon cancer progression and metastasis: recent insights and advancements

A Malki, RA ElRuz, I Gupta, A Allouch, S Vranic… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Colorectal cancer (CRC), the third most common type of cancer, is the second leading cause
of cancer-related mortality rates worldwide. Although modern research was able to shed …

Clinical activity and safety of the anti–programmed death 1 monoclonal antibody dostarlimab for patients with recurrent or advanced mismatch repair–deficient …

A Oaknin, AV Tinker, L Gilbert, V Samouëlian… - JAMA …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Deficient mismatch mutation repair mechanisms may sensitize endometrial
cancers to anti–programmed death 1 (PD-1) therapies. Dostarlimab (TSR-042) is an …

Treatment-related adverse events of PD-1 and PD-L1 inhibitors in clinical trials: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Y Wang, S Zhou, F Yang, X Qi, X Wang, X Guan… - JAMA …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Programmed cell death (PD-1) and programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1)
inhibitors have been increasingly used in cancer therapy. Understanding the treatment …

Microsatellite instability: a review of what the oncologist should know

K Li, H Luo, L Huang, H Luo, X Zhu - Cancer cell international, 2020 - Springer
The patients with high microsatellite instability (MSI-H)/mismatch repair deficient (dMMR)
tumors recently have been reported that can benefit from immunotherapy, and MSI can be …

T-cell–inflamed gene-expression profile, programmed death ligand 1 expression, and tumor mutational burden predict efficacy in patients treated with pembrolizumab …

PA Ott, YJ Bang, SA Piha-Paul, ARA Razak… - Journal of Clinical …, 2019 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Biomarkers that can predict response to anti–programmed cell death 1 (PD-1)
therapy across multiple tumor types include a T-cell–inflamed gene-expression profile …