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 …

The challenges of tumor mutational burden as an immunotherapy biomarker

DL Jardim, A Goodman, D de Melo Gagliato… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Tumor mutational burden (TMB) reflects cancer mutation quantity. Mutations are processed
to neo-antigens and presented by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins to T …

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 …

Nivolumab in children and young adults with relapsed or refractory solid tumours or lymphoma (ADVL1412): a multicentre, open-label, single-arm, phase 1–2 trial

KL Davis, E Fox, MS Merchant, JM Reid… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Immune checkpoint inhibitors targeting PD-1 have shown clinical benefit in
adults with cancer, but data on these drugs in children are scarce. We did a phase 1–2 study …

Efficacy and safety of pembrolizumab for heavily pretreated patients with advanced, metastatic adenocarcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus: the …

MA Shah, T Kojima, D Hochhauser, P Enzinger… - JAMA …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Effective treatment options are limited for patients with advanced, metastatic
esophageal cancer progressing after 2 or more lines of systemic therapy. Objective To …

PD-1 expression and clinical PD-1 blockade in B-cell lymphomas

ZY Xu-Monette, J Zhou… - Blood, The Journal of the …, 2018 - ashpublications.org
Programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) blockade targeting the PD-1 immune checkpoint
has demonstrated unprecedented clinical efficacy in the treatment of advanced cancers …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic review and meta-analysis of endocrine-related adverse events associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors

J De Filette, CE Andreescu, F Cools… - Hormone and …, 2019 - thieme-connect.com
Monoclonal antibodies targeting cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA-4), programed cell
death 1 (PD-1), or its ligand (PD-L1) have become the mainstay for advanced malignancies …

Pembrolizumab for B-cell lymphomas relapsing after or refractory to CD19-directed CAR T-cell therapy

EA Chong, C Alanio, J Svoboda… - Blood, The Journal …, 2022 - ashpublications.org
CD19-directed chimeric antigen receptor–modified (CAR T) T cells achieve durable
remissions in about 30% to 40% of relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphomas. T-cell …

The distribution of T‐cell subsets and the expression of immune checkpoint receptors and ligands in patients with newly diagnosed and relapsed acute myeloid …

P Williams, S Basu, G Garcia‐Manero, CS Hourigan… - Cancer, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background Phenotypic characterization of immune cells in the bone marrow (BM) of
patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is lacking. Methods T‐cell infiltration was …

Pembrolizumab in relapsed or refractory primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma

P Armand, S Rodig, V Melnichenko… - Journal of Clinical …, 2019 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Patients with relapsed or refractory primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma
(rrPMBCL) have a poor prognosis, and their treatment represents an urgent and unmet …