Clinical insights into small cell lung cancer: Tumor heterogeneity, diagnosis, therapy, and future directions

Z Megyesfalvi, CM Gay, H Popper… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is characterized by rapid growth and high metastatic capacity.
It has strong epidemiologic and biologic links to tobacco carcinogens. Although the majority …

[PDF][PDF] 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 …

Molecular correlates of clinical response and resistance to atezolizumab in combination with bevacizumab in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma

AX Zhu, AR Abbas, MR de Galarreta, Y Guan, S Lu… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Atezolizumab (anti-programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1)) and bevacizumab (anti-vascular
endothelial growth factor (VEGF)) combination therapy has become the new standard of …

Updated overall survival and PD-L1 subgroup analysis of patients with extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer treated with atezolizumab, carboplatin, and etoposide …

SV Liu, M Reck, AS Mansfield, T Mok… - Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE: IMpower133 (ClinicalTrials. gov identifier: NCT02763579), a randomized,
double-blind, phase I/III study, demonstrated that adding atezolizumab (anti-programmed …

Tumor mutational burden as a predictive biomarker in solid tumors

D Sha, Z Jin, J Budczies, K Kluck, A Stenzinger… - Cancer discovery, 2020 - AACR
Tumor mutational burden (TMB), defined as the number of somatic mutations per megabase
of interrogated genomic sequence, varies across malignancies. Panel sequencing–based …

Durvalumab, with or without tremelimumab, plus platinum–etoposide versus platinum–etoposide alone in first-line treatment of extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer …

JW Goldman, M Dvorkin, Y Chen, N Reinmuth… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background First-line durvalumab plus etoposide with either cisplatin or carboplatin
(platinum–etoposide) showed a significant improvement in overall survival versus platinum …

Tumor mutational burden as a predictor of immunotherapy response: is more always better?

JH Strickler, BA Hanks, M Khasraw - Clinical Cancer Research, 2021 - AACR
Immune checkpoint inhibitors, including antibodies that block programmed cell death protein-
1 (PD-1) and PD-L1, have transformed the management of many cancers. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Consensus guidelines for the definition, detection and interpretation of immunogenic cell death

L Galluzzi, I Vitale, S Warren, S Adjemian… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cells succumbing to stress via regulated cell death (RCD) can initiate an adaptive immune
response associated with immunological memory, provided they display sufficient …

Tislelizumab plus chemotherapy vs chemotherapy alone as first-line treatment for advanced squamous non–small-cell lung cancer: a phase 3 randomized clinical trial

J Wang, S Lu, X Yu, Y Hu, Y Sun, Z Wang… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance This study demonstrates that tislelizumab in combination with chemotherapy is
associated with improved progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with advanced …

[PDF][PDF] Nivolumab plus ipilimumab for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: preliminary analysis of patients in the CheckMate 650 trial

P Sharma, RK Pachynski, V Narayan, A Fléchon… - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) is immunologically" cold" and
predominantly resistant to immune checkpoint therapy due to few tumor-infiltrating T cells …