[HTML][HTML] Immune checkpoint blockade in glioblastoma: from tumor heterogeneity to personalized treatment

VA Arrieta, C Dmello, DJ McGrail… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) has revolutionized modern cancer therapy, arousing
great interest in the neuro-oncology community. While several reports show that subsets of …

[HTML][HTML] Updates in IDH-wildtype glioblastoma

JM Melhem, J Detsky, MJ Lim-Fat, JR Perry - Neurotherapeutics, 2022 - Elsevier
Glioblastoma is the most aggressive primary brain tumor with a poor prognosis. The 2021
WHO CNS5 classification has further stressed the importance of molecular signatures in …

[HTML][HTML] Multiomic neuropathology improves diagnostic accuracy in pediatric neuro-oncology

D Sturm, D Capper, F Andreiuolo, M Gessi… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
The large diversity of central nervous system (CNS) tumor types in children and adolescents
results in disparate patient outcomes and renders accurate diagnosis challenging. In this …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Combined Immunotherapy Improves Outcome for Replication-Repair-Deficient (RRD) High-Grade Glioma Failing Anti–PD-1 Monotherapy: A Report from the …

A Das, NR Fernandez, A Levine, V Bianchi, LK Stengs… - Cancer discovery, 2024 - AACR
Immune checkpoint inhibition (ICI) is effective for replication-repair-deficient, high-grade
gliomas (RRD-HGG). The clinical/biological impact of immune-directed approaches after …

Checkpoint Immunotherapy in Pediatrics: Here, Gone, and Back Again.

AH Long, DA Morgenstern, A Leruste… - American Society of …, 2022 - europepmc.org
The role of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in the treatment of pediatric cancers
continues to evolve. Such therapies function by augmenting existing antitumor T-cell …

Nivolumab with or without ipilimumab in pediatric patients with high-grade CNS malignancies: Safety, efficacy, biomarker, and pharmacokinetics—CheckMate 908

IJ Dunkel, F Doz, NK Foreman, D Hargrave… - Neuro …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Therapeutic options are limited in pediatric CNS malignancies. CheckMate 908
(NCT03130959) is an open-label, sequential-arm, phase 1b/2 study investigating nivolumab …

[HTML][HTML] “De novo replication repair deficient glioblastoma, IDH-wildtype” is a distinct glioblastoma subtype in adults that may benefit from immune checkpoint …

S Hadad, R Gupta, NA Oberheim Bush, JW Taylor… - Acta …, 2024 - Springer
Glioblastoma is a clinically and molecularly heterogeneous disease, and new predictive
biomarkers are needed to identify those patients most likely to respond to specific …

[HTML][HTML] Utility of molecular subtypes and genetic alterations for evaluating clinical outcomes in 1029 patients with endometrial cancer

Y Asami, M Kobayashi Kato, K Hiranuma… - British Journal of …, 2023 - nature.com
Background We investigated the utility of a molecular classifier tool and genetic alterations
for predicting prognosis in Japanese patients with endometrial cancer. Methods A total of …

[HTML][HTML] Recommendations for the classification of germline variants in the exonuclease domain of POLE and POLD1

P Mur, J Viana-Errasti, S García-Mulero… - Genome Medicine, 2023 - Springer
Background Germline variants affecting the proofreading activity of polymerases epsilon and
delta cause a hereditary cancer and adenomatous polyposis syndrome characterized by …