Treatment landscape of triple-negative breast cancer—expanded options, evolving needs

G Bianchini, C De Angelis, L Licata… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2022 - nature.com
Tumour heterogeneity and a long-standing paucity of effective therapies other than
chemotherapy have contributed to triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) being the subtype …

Therapeutic targeting of the tumor microenvironment

L Bejarano, MJC Jordāo, JA Joyce - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
Strategies to therapeutically target the tumor microenvironment (TME) have emerged as a
promising approach for cancer treatment in recent years due to the critical roles of the TME …

Heterogeneity of triple negative breast cancer: Current advances in subtyping and treatment implications

K Asleh, N Riaz, TO Nielsen - Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer …, 2022 - Springer
As the field of translational 'omics has progressed, refined classifiers at both genomic and
proteomic levels have emerged to decipher the heterogeneity of breast cancer in a clinically …

Oncolytic T-VEC virotherapy plus neoadjuvant chemotherapy in nonmetastatic triple-negative breast cancer: a phase 2 trial

H Soliman, D Hogue, H Han, B Mooney, R Costa… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Talimogene laherparepvec (T-VEC) is an oncolytic virus hypothesized to enhance triple-
negative breast cancer (TNBC) responses to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). This article …

Immunotherapy approaches for breast cancer patients in 2023

LA Emens, S Loi - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2023 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Immunotherapy, particularly agents targeting the immunoregulatory PD-1/PD-L1 axis,
harnesses the power of the immune system to treat cancer, with unique potential for a …

Tumor microenvironment in breast cancer—updates on therapeutic implications and pathologic assessment

JJ Li, JY Tsang, GM Tse - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The tumor microenvironment (TME) in breast cancer plays important roles
in tumor behavior and treatment response, making its pathologic assessment critical for …

Breast cancer cells survive chemotherapy by activating targetable immune-modulatory programs characterized by PD-L1 or CD80

A Shahbandi, FY Chiu, NA Ungerleider, R Kvadas… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Breast cancer cells must avoid intrinsic and extrinsic cell death to relapse following
chemotherapy. Entering senescence enables survival from mitotic catastrophe, apoptosis …

A comprehensive single-cell map of T cell exhaustion-associated immune environments in human breast cancer

S Tietscher, J Wagner, T Anzeneder… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint therapy in breast cancer remains restricted to triple negative patients,
and long-term clinical benefit is rare. The primary aim of immune checkpoint blockade is to …

Aberrant hyperexpression of the RNA binding protein FMRP in tumors mediates immune evasion

Q Zeng, S Saghafinia, A Chryplewicz, N Fournier… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Many human cancers manifest the capability to circumvent attack by the adaptive immune
system. In this work, we identified a component of immune evasion that involves frequent up …

Surgery-mediated tumor-promoting effects on the immune microenvironment

X Cheng, H Zhang, A Hamad, H Huang… - Seminars in cancer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Surgical resection continues to be the mainstay treatment for solid cancers even though
chemotherapy and immunotherapy have significantly improved patient overall survival and …