Emerging therapies for glioblastoma: current state and future directions

L Rong, N Li, Z Zhang - Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer …, 2022 - Springer
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common high-grade primary malignant brain tumor with an
extremely poor prognosis. Given the poor survival with currently approved treatments for …

Myeloid-derived suppressor cells as immunosuppressive regulators and therapeutic targets in cancer

K Li, H Shi, B Zhang, X Ou, Q Ma, Y Chen… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) are a heterogenic population of immature
myeloid cells with immunosuppressive effects, which undergo massive expansion during …

Challenges in glioblastoma research: focus on the tumor microenvironment

A Bikfalvi, CA da Costa, T Avril, JV Barnier, L Bauchet… - Trends in cancer, 2023 - cell.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most deadly type of malignant brain tumor, despite extensive
molecular analyses of GBM cells. In recent years, the tumor microenvironment (TME) has …

Immunotherapy: reshape the tumor immune microenvironment

B Lv, Y Wang, D Ma, W Cheng, J Liu, T Yong… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) include tumor cells, immune cells, cytokines, etc.
The interactions between these components, which are divided into anti-tumor and pro …

PD-L1 on dendritic cells attenuates T cell activation and regulates response to immune checkpoint blockade

Q Peng, X Qiu, Z Zhang, S Zhang, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint blockade therapies have shown clinical promise in a variety of cancers,
but how tumor-infiltrating T cells are activated remains unclear. In this study, we explore the …

Neoadjuvant anti-PD-1 immunotherapy promotes a survival benefit with intratumoral and systemic immune responses in recurrent glioblastoma

TF Cloughesy, AY Mochizuki, JR Orpilla, W Hugo… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Glioblastoma is the most common primary malignant brain tumor in adults and is associated
with poor survival. The Ivy Foundation Early Phase Clinical Trials Consortium conducted a …

Anti-PD-1 and anti-CTLA-4 therapies in cancer: mechanisms of action, efficacy, and limitations

JA Seidel, A Otsuka, K Kabashima - Frontiers in oncology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Melanoma, a skin cancer associated with high mortality rates, is highly radio-and
chemotherapy resistant but can also be very immunogenic. These circumstances have led to …

PARPi triggers the STING-dependent immune response and enhances the therapeutic efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade independent of BRCAness

J Shen, W Zhao, Z Ju, L Wang, Y Peng, M Labrie… - Cancer research, 2019 - AACR
PARP inhibitors (PARPi) have shown remarkable therapeutic efficacy against BRCA1/2-
mutant cancers through a synthetic lethal interaction. PARPi exert their therapeutic effects …

Antibody–Fc/FcR interaction on macrophages as a mechanism for hyperprogressive disease in non–small cell lung cancer subsequent to PD-1/PD-L1 blockade

G Lo Russo, M Moro, M Sommariva, V Cancila… - Clinical Cancer …, 2019 - AACR
Abstract Purpose: Hyperprogression (HP), a paradoxical boost in tumor growth, was
described in a subset of patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI). Neither …

Nivolumab with or without ipilimumab in patients with recurrent glioblastoma: results from exploratory phase I cohorts of CheckMate 143

A Omuro, G Vlahovic, M Lim, S Sahebjam… - Neuro …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Immunotherapies have demonstrated efficacy across a diverse set of tumors
supporting further evaluation in glioblastoma. The objective of this study was to evaluate the …