Molecular pathogenesis and systemic therapies for hepatocellular carcinoma

JM Llovet, R Pinyol, RK Kelley, A El-Khoueiry… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains one of the most prevalent and deadliest cancers.
The poor outcome associated with HCC is dramatically changing due to the advent of …

Targeted therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma

A Huang, XR Yang, WY Chung, AR Dennison… - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
The last 3 years have seen the emergence of promising targeted therapies for the treatment
of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Sorafenib has been the mainstay of treatment for a …

CD36+ cancer-associated fibroblasts provide immunosuppressive microenvironment for hepatocellular carcinoma via secretion of macrophage migration inhibitory …

GQ Zhu, Z Tang, R Huang, WF Qu, Y Fang, R Yang… - Cell discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is an immunotherapy-resistant malignancy characterized
by high cellular heterogeneity. The diversity of cell types and the interplay between tumor …

Geospatial immune heterogeneity reflects the diverse tumor–immune interactions in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma

Y Lin, L Peng, L Dong, D Liu, J Ma, J Lin, X Chen, P Lin… - Cancer Discovery, 2022 - AACR
Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA) exhibits extensive intratumoral heterogeneity and
an extremely high mortality rate. Here, we performed whole-exome sequencing, RNA …

Intratumoural immune heterogeneity as a hallmark of tumour evolution and progression in hepatocellular carcinoma

PHD Nguyen, S Ma, CZJ Phua, NA Kaya… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The clinical relevance of immune landscape intratumoural heterogeneity (immune-ITH) and
its role in tumour evolution remain largely unexplored. Here, we uncover significant spatial …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring markers of exhausted CD8 T cells to predict response to immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma

CL Hsu, DL Ou, LY Bai, CW Chen, L Lin, SF Huang… - Liver cancer, 2021 - karger.com
Background: Reversal of CD8 T-cell exhaustion was considered a major antitumor
mechanism of anti-programmed cell death-1 (PD-1)/anti-programmed death ligand-1 (PD …

Tertiary lymphoid structures in cancer–considerations for patient prognosis

L Munoz-Erazo, JL Rhodes, VC Marion… - Cellular & molecular …, 2020 - nature.com
Tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS) are ectopic lymphoid formations that form within
nonlymphoid tissue. They share structural and functional characteristics with secondary …

[HTML][HTML] Cellular heterogeneity and plasticity in liver cancer

LK Chan, YM Tsui, DWH Ho, IOL Ng - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Hepatocarcinogenesis involves complex genetic and cellular dysregulations which drive the
formation of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the predominant form of primary liver cancer …

[PDF][PDF] Progress and challenges of predictive biomarkers for immune checkpoint blockade

Y Lei, X Li, Q Huang, X Zheng, M Liu - Frontiers in Oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Over the past decade, immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy has revolutionized the
outlook for oncology with significant and sustained improvement in the overall patient …

[HTML][HTML] PD-1+ CXCR5− CD4+ Th-CXCL13 cell subset drives B cells into tertiary lymphoid structures of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

JP Li, CY Wu, MY Chen, SX Liu, SM Yan… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background A major current challenge is to exploit tertiary lymphoid structures (TLSs) to
promote the lymphocyte infiltration, activation and differentiation by tumor antigens to …