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Human cancer immunotherapy with antibodies to the PD-1 and PD-L1 pathway

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Clinical trials with mAbs blockading the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway have shown impressive response rates in patients, particularly for melanoma, non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), renal cell carcinoma (RCC), and bladder cancer.
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This article is published in Trends in Molecular Medicine.The article was published on 2015-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 548 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cancer immunotherapy & Immunotherapy.

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PD-1 and PD-L1 Checkpoint Signaling Inhibition for Cancer Immunotherapy: Mechanism, Combinations, and Clinical Outcome.

TL;DR: The current landscape of the PD-1/PD-L1 mechanistic role in tumor immune evasion and therapeutic outcome for cancer treatment is reviewed and the current progress in clinical trials, combination of drug therapy with immunotherapy, safety, and future of check point inhibitors for multiple types of cancer are reviewed.
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Overcoming T cell exhaustion in infection and cancer.

TL;DR: The molecular regulation of T cell exhaustion is reviewed, placing recent findings onPD-1 blockade therapies in cancer in the context of the broader understanding of the roles of the PD-1:PD-L1 pathway in T cell depletion during chronic infection.
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T-cell exhaustion in the tumor microenvironment

TL;DR: The updated understanding on the exhausted T cells in cancer and their potential regulatory mechanisms are overviewed and current therapeutic interventions targeting exhausted T Cells in clinical trials are discussed.
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PD-1/PD-L1 pathway: current researches in cancer

TL;DR: This review is aimed to summarize the role of PD-1 and PD-L1 in cancer, looking forward to improve the therapy of cancer.
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PD-L1 expression in human cancers and its association with clinical outcomes

TL;DR: Better understanding of tumor microenvironment and use of other biomarkers such as gene marker and combined index are necessary to better identify patients who will benefit from PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoint blockade therapy.
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PD-1 and its ligands in tolerance and immunity

TL;DR: Current understanding of the immunoregulatory functions of PD-1 and its ligands and their therapeutic potential are discussed and an inhibitory bidirectional interaction between PD-L1 and B7-1 is discovered, revealing new ways the B7:CD28 family regulates T cell activation and tolerance.
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