Immune checkpoint inhibitors in melanoma

MS Carlino, J Larkin, GV Long - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Immune checkpoint inhibitors target the dysfunctional immune system, to induce cancer-cell
killing by CD8-positive T cells. Immune checkpoint inhibitors, specifically anti-CTLA4 and …

Neoadjuvant checkpoint blockade for cancer immunotherapy

SL Topalian, JM Taube, DM Pardoll - Science, 2020 - science.org
BACKGROUND Immunotherapies that target the interaction of programmed death 1 (PD-1)
with its ligands, PD-L1 and PD-L2, have ushered in the modern oncology era. The PD-1 …

Neoadjuvant nivolumab and ipilimumab in resectable stage III melanoma

CU Blank, MW Lucas, RA Scolyer… - The New England …, 2024 - research.rug.nl
BACKGROUND: Phase 1-2 trials involving patients with resectable, macroscopic stage III
melanoma have shown that neoadjuvant immunotherapy is more efficacious than adjuvant …

Neoadjuvant relatlimab and nivolumab in resectable melanoma

RN Amaria, M Postow, EM Burton, MT Tetzlaff, MI Ross… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Relatlimab and nivolumab combination immunotherapy improves progression-free survival
over nivolumab monotherapy in patients with unresectable advanced melanoma. We …

Personalized response-directed surgery and adjuvant therapy after neoadjuvant ipilimumab and nivolumab in high-risk stage III melanoma: the PRADO trial

ILM Reijers, AM Menzies, ACJ Van Akkooi… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Neoadjuvant ipilimumab and nivolumab induces high pathologic response rates (pRRs) in
clinical stage III nodal melanoma, and pathologic response is strongly associated with …

Ipilimumab with or without nivolumab in PD-1 or PD-L1 blockade refractory metastatic melanoma: a randomized phase 2 trial

A VanderWalde, SL Bellasea, KL Kendra… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
In this randomized phase 2 trial, blockade of cytotoxic T-lymphocyte protein 4 (CTLA-4) with
continuation of programmed death protein 1 (PD-1) blockade in patients with metastatic …

Diet-driven microbial ecology underpins associations between cancer immunotherapy outcomes and the gut microbiome

RC Simpson, ER Shanahan, M Batten, ILM Reijers… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
The gut microbiota shapes the response to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in cancer,
however dietary and geographic influences have not been well-studied in prospective trials …

Neoadjuvant immunotherapy leads to pathological responses in MMR-proficient and MMR-deficient early-stage colon cancers

M Chalabi, LF Fanchi, KK Dijkstra, JG Van den Berg… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract PD-1 plus CTLA-4 blockade is highly effective in advanced-stage, mismatch repair
(MMR)-deficient (dMMR) colorectal cancers, yet not in MMR-proficient (pMMR) tumors. We …

Neoadjuvant immunotherapy with nivolumab and ipilimumab induces major pathological responses in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

JL Vos, JBW Elbers, O Krijgsman, JJH Traets… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Surgery for locoregionally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC)
results in 30‒50% five-year overall survival. In IMCISION (NCT03003637), a non …

Survival and biomarker analyses from the OpACIN-neo and OpACIN neoadjuvant immunotherapy trials in stage III melanoma

EA Rozeman, EP Hoefsmit, ILM Reijers, RPM Saw… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Neoadjuvant ipilimumab plus nivolumab showed high pathologic response rates (pRRs) in
patients with macroscopic stage III melanoma in the phase 1b OpACIN (NCT02437279) and …