Immunotherapy approaches for malignant pleural mesothelioma

DA Fennell, S Dulloo, J Harber - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2022 - nature.com
Over the past decade, immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have revolutionized the treatment
of cancer. In mesothelioma, a rare cancer with a dismal prognosis generally caused by …

Tim-3 expression and its role in hepatocellular carcinoma

F Liu, Y Liu, Z Chen - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2018 - Springer
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common tumors in the world, and its
mortality is still on the rise. Limited treatments and low chemotherapy sensitivity of HCC …

Immunotherapy in malignant pleural mesothelioma

CJ De Gooijer, FJ Borm, A Scherpereel… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The only registered systemic treatment for malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is
platinum based chemotherapy combined with pemetrexed, with or without bevacizumab …

Targeting T-cell metabolism to boost immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy

H Li, A Zhao, M Li, L Shi, Q Han, Z Hou - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have shown promising therapeutic effects in the
treatment of advanced solid cancers, but their overall response rate is still very low for …

The immune microenvironment in mesothelioma: mechanisms of resistance to immunotherapy

GJ Chu, N Van Zandwijk, JEJ Rasko - Frontiers in Oncology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Although mesothelioma is the consequence of a protracted immune response to asbestos
fibers and characterized by a clear immune infiltrate, novel immunotherapy approaches …

TIM-3 as a prognostic marker and a potential immunotherapy target in human malignant tumors: a meta-analysis and bioinformatics validation

K Zang, L Hui, M Wang, Y Huang, X Zhu… - Frontiers in oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background As a novel immune checkpoint molecular, T-cell immunoglobulin mucin 3 (TIM-
3) is emerging as a therapeutic target for cancer immunotherapy. However, the predictive …

Expression profiles and clinical value of plasma exosomal Tim-3 and Galectin-9 in non-small cell lung cancer

J Gao, X Qiu, X Li, H Fan, F Zhang, T Lv… - … and Biophysical Research …, 2018 - Elsevier
Exosomes are membrane-bound, virus-sized vesicles present in circulating blood. Tumor
cells are avid producers of exosomes, which are thought to mimic molecular features of …

[HTML][HTML] Matter of TIME: the tumor-immune microenvironment of mesothelioma and implications for checkpoint blockade efficacy

J Harber, T Kamata, C Pritchard… - … for ImmunoTherapy of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is an incurable cancer with a dismal prognosis and
few effective treatment options. Nonetheless, recent positive phase III trial results for immune …

Tumor immune microenvironment and genetic alterations in mesothelioma

S Hiltbrunner, L Mannarino, MB Kirschner… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a rare and fatal disease of the pleural lining. Up to
80% of the MPM cases are linked to asbestos exposure. Even though its use has been …

Efficacy of nivolumab and ipilimumab in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma is related to a subtype of effector memory cytotoxic T cells: Translational …

JM Mankor, MJ Disselhorst, M Poncin, P Baas… - …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Combined immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) treatment targeting PD-1 and
CTLA-4 was suggested to yield clinical benefit over chemotherapy in malignant pleural …