Lung cancer immunotherapy: progress, pitfalls, and promises

A Lahiri, A Maji, PD Potdar, N Singh, P Parikh, B Bisht… - Molecular cancer, 2023 - Springer
Lung cancer is the primary cause of mortality in the United States and around the globe.
Therapeutic options for lung cancer treatment include surgery, radiation therapy …

Oncolytic virotherapy: basic principles, recent advances and future directions

D Lin, Y Shen, T Liang - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Oncolytic viruses (OVs) have attracted growing awareness in the twenty-first century, as they
are generally considered to have direct oncolysis and cancer immune effects. With the …

An engineered oncolytic virus expressing PD-L1 inhibitors activates tumor neoantigen-specific T cell responses

G Wang, X Kang, KS Chen, T Jehng, L Jones… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Oncolytic viruses offer an in situ vaccination approach to activate tumor-specific T cell
responses. However, the upregulation of PD-L1 expression on tumor cells and immune cells …

Vaccinia virus-mediated cancer immunotherapy: cancer vaccines and oncolytics

ZS Guo, B Lu, Z Guo, E Giehl, M Feist, E Dai… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2019 - Springer
Cancer vaccines and oncolytic immunotherapy are promising treatment strategies with
potential to provide greater clinical benefit to patients with advanced-stage cancer. In …

Cytokines in cancer immunotherapy

S Lee, K Margolin - Cancers, 2011 - mdpi.com
Cytokines are molecular messengers that allow the cells of the immune system to
communicate with one another to generate a coordinated, robust, but self-limited response …

An oncolytic virus–delivered tgfβ Inhibitor overcomes the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment

K DePeaux, DB Rivadeneira, K Lontos… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - rupress.org
While checkpoint blockade immunotherapies have widespread success, they rely on a
responsive immune infiltrate; as such, treatments enhancing immune infiltration and …

Intratumoral expression of IL-7 and IL-12 using an oncolytic virus increases systemic sensitivity to immune checkpoint blockade

S Nakao, Y Arai, M Tasaki, M Yamashita… - Science translational …, 2020 - science.org
The immune status of the tumor microenvironment is a key indicator in determining the
antitumor effectiveness of immunotherapies. Data support the role of activation and …

Intravenous delivery of a multi-mechanistic cancer-targeted oncolytic poxvirus in humans

CJ Breitbach, J Burke, D Jonker, J Stephenson… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
The efficacy and safety of biological molecules in cancer therapy, such as peptides and
small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), could be markedly increased if high concentrations could …

Oncolytic viruses as therapeutic cancer vaccines

DL Bartlett, Z Liu, M Sathaiah, R Ravindranathan… - Molecular cancer, 2013 - Springer
Oncolytic viruses (OVs) are tumor-selective, multi-mechanistic antitumor agents. They kill
infected cancer and associated endothelial cells via direct oncolysis, and uninfected cells …

Poxvirus tropism

G McFadden - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2005 - nature.com
Despite the success of the WHO-led smallpox eradication programme a quarter of a century
ago, there remains considerable fear that variola virus, or other related pathogenic …