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Cancer immunotherapy – revisited

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The recent positive results of clinical trials with novel immunoactive drugs as well as the unexpected finding of a positive interaction between immunotherapy and chemotherapy may herald a new era for the immunotherapy of cancer.
Abstract
Our insight into antitumour immune responses has increased considerably during the past decades, yet the development of immunotherapy as a treatment modality for cancer has been hampered by several factors. These include difficulties in the selection of the optimal dose and schedule, the methods of evaluation, and financial support. Although durable clinical remissions have been observed with various immunotherapeutic strategies, the percentage of patients who benefited from these interventions has remained too small to justify the general use of such strategies. However, the recent positive results of clinical trials with novel immunoactive drugs as well as the unexpected finding of a positive interaction between immunotherapy and chemotherapy may herald a new era for the immunotherapy of cancer.

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Potentiating the anti-tumor response of tumor infiltrated T cells by NAD+ supplementation

TL;DR: It is shown that low NAD+ levels restrict the function of tumor infiltrating T lymphocytes (TILs) and insights are provided into the cellular basis of T cell metabolic reprogramming in treating cancers.
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Bridging academic science and clinical research in the search for novel targeted anti-cancer agents

TL;DR: The factors to consider before starting a new drug discovery & development project are described, and an example is given of a successful clinical project that has had its roots in local universities and was carried through preclinical development into phase I clinical trials.

The Tumor Microenvironment as Target for New Cancer Therapies

TL;DR: How key interactions between tumor cells and surrounding mesenchymal and immune cells in the TME can promote tumor progression is reviewed and it highlights cellular and molecular elements that might represent novel therapeutic targets.
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Principles of Cancer Immunobiology and Immunotherapy of Solid Tumors

TL;DR: Potential role and rationale for combination of immunothera‐ peutic and chemotherapeutic/targeted agents and radiotherapy in one treatment strat‐ egy is focused on.
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New Guidelines to Evaluate the Response to Treatment in Solid Tumors

TL;DR: A model by which a combined assessment of all existing lesions, characterized by target lesions and nontarget lesions, is used to extrapolate an overall response to treatment is proposed, which is largely validated by the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors Group and integrated into the present guidelines.
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A Toll-like receptor recognizes bacterial DNA.

TL;DR: It is shown that cellular response to CpG DNA is mediated by a Toll-like receptor, TLR9, and vertebrate immune systems appear to have evolved a specific Toll- like receptor that distinguishes bacterial DNA from self-DNA.
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