Evolving therapeutic landscape of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma

C Yang, H Zhang, L Zhang, AX Zhu… - Nature reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common solid malignancies worldwide.
A large proportion of patients with HCC are diagnosed at advanced stages and are only …

Turning cold tumors hot: from molecular mechanisms to clinical applications

J Zhang, D Huang, PE Saw, E Song - Trends in immunology, 2022 - cell.com
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapies have achieved clinical benefit, but most
'immune-cold'solid tumors are not responsive. The diversity of immune evasion mechanisms …

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 …

Intratumoral dendritic cell–CD4+ T helper cell niches enable CD8+ T cell differentiation following PD-1 blockade in hepatocellular carcinoma

A Magen, P Hamon, N Fiaschi, BY Soong, MD Park… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Despite no apparent defects in T cell priming and recruitment to tumors, a large subset of T
cell rich tumors fail to respond to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB). We leveraged a …

Identification of a tumour immune barrier in the HCC microenvironment that determines the efficacy of immunotherapy

Y Liu, Z Xun, K Ma, S Liang, X Li, S Zhou, L Sun… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background & Aims The tumour microenvironment (TME) is a crucial mediator of cancer
progression and therapeutic outcome. The TME subtype correlates with patient response to …

Mechanisms driving the immunoregulatory function of cancer cells

A van Weverwijk, KE de Visser - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Tumours display an astonishing variation in the spatial distribution, composition and
activation state of immune cells, which impacts their progression and response to …

Immunotherapies for hepatocellular carcinoma

JM Llovet, F Castet, M Heikenwalder… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2022 - nature.com
Liver cancer, more specifically hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), is the second leading
cause of cancer-related death and its incidence is increasing globally. Around 50% of …

The liver cancer immune microenvironment: Therapeutic implications for hepatocellular carcinoma

R Donne, A Lujambio - Hepatology, 2023 - journals.lww.com
The liver is the sixth most common site of primary cancer in humans and the fourth leading
cause of cancer‐related death in the world. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) accounts for …

Advances in immunotherapy for hepatocellular carcinoma

B Sangro, P Sarobe, S Hervás-Stubbs… - Nature reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a prevalent disease with a progression that is modulated
by the immune system. Systemic therapy is used in the advanced stage and until 2017 …

Antigen presentation in cancer: insights into tumour immunogenicity and immune evasion

S Jhunjhunwala, C Hammer, L Delamarre - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint blockade, which blocks inhibitory signals of T cell activation, has shown
tremendous success in treating cancer, although success still remains limited to a fraction of …