[HTML][HTML] Immunotherapy in older adults with cancer

CJ Presley, F Gomes, CE Burd… - Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cancer is a disease of older adults. The median age at cancer diagnosis is 66 years and
median age at cancer-related death is 72 years. 1 Older adults represent one of the fastest …

Coronavirus infection and immune system: An insight of COVID-19 in cancer patients

A Indini, E Rijavec, M Ghidini, C Bareggi… - Critical reviews in …, 2020 - Elsevier
The novel coronavirus respiratory illness (COVID-19) is a public health emergency of global
concern. Patients with cancer are at high risk of infections, due to an overall …

[HTML][HTML] Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) clinical practice guideline on immunotherapy for the treatment of breast cancer

LA Emens, S Adams, A Cimino-Mathews… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Breast cancer has historically been a disease for which immunotherapy was largely
unavailable. Recently, the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in combination with …

[HTML][HTML] A prospective cohort study on the safety of checkpoint inhibitors in older cancer patients–the ELDERS study

F Gomes, P Lorigan, S Woolley, P Foden, K Burns… - Esmo Open, 2021 - Elsevier
Objective Older cancer patients are underrepresented in the pivotal trials of checkpoint
inhibitors (CPIs). This study aimed to investigate the impact of an ageing immune system on …

Uptake and survival outcomes following immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy among trial-ineligible patients with advanced solid cancers

RB Parikh, EJ Min, EP Wileyto, F Riaz, CP Gross… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are part of standard of care for patients with
many advanced solid tumors. Patients with poor performance status or organ dysfunction …

GM‐CSF and IL‐7 fusion cytokine engineered tumor vaccine generates long‐term Th‐17 memory cells and increases overall survival in aged syngeneic mouse …

JM Shireman, N Gonugunta, L Zhao, A Pattnaik… - Aging …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Age‐related immune dysfunctions, such as decreased T‐cell output, are closely related to
pathologies like cancers and lack of vaccine efficacy among the elderly. Engineered …

Safety of immune checkpoint inhibitors in elderly patients: an observational study

A Paderi, S Fancelli, E Caliman, S Pillozzi, E Gambale… - Current …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Background: Immunotherapy has completely changed the treatment of solid tumors.
Although immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) seem to be an appealing alternative to …

Multidisciplinary approach to spinal metastases and metastatic spinal cord compression—a new integrative flowchart for patient management

M Esperança-Martins, D Roque, T Barroso… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The prevalence of metastatic spine disease is progressively increasing,
affecting a growing group of heterogeneous and complex patients. A multidisciplinary …

[HTML][HTML] Age-associated changes in the gut microbiome impact efficacy of tumor immunomodulatory treatments

A Singh, H Ashar, JT Butcher, A Ranjan - Experimental gerontology, 2023 - Elsevier
In-situ vaccination (ISV) utilizing nanoparticles (NPs) and therapeutic devices like focused
ultrasound (FUS) can trigger immune-mediated killing of both treated and untreated cancer …

Immunometabolism at the nexus of cancer therapeutic efficacy and resistance

J Traba, MN Sack, TA Waldmann… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Constitutive activity of the immune surveillance system detects and kills cancerous cells,
although many cancers have developed strategies to avoid detection and to resist their …