scispace - formally typeset
Journal ArticleDOI

The future of immune checkpoint therapy

Padmanee Sharma, +1 more
- 03 Apr 2015 - 
- Vol. 348, Iss: 6230, pp 56-61
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
The way forward for this class of novel agents lies in the ability to understand human immune responses in the tumor microenvironment, which will provide valuable information regarding the dynamic nature of the immune response and regulation of additional pathways that will need to be targeted through combination therapies to provide survival benefit for greater numbers of patients.
Abstract
Immune checkpoint therapy, which targets regulatory pathways in T cells to enhance antitumor immune responses, has led to important clinical advances and provided a new weapon against cancer. This therapy has elicited durable clinical responses and, in a fraction of patients, long-term remissions where patients exhibit no clinical signs of cancer for many years. The way forward for this class of novel agents lies in our ability to understand human immune responses in the tumor microenvironment. This will provide valuable information regarding the dynamic nature of the immune response and regulation of additional pathways that will need to be targeted through combination therapies to provide survival benefit for greater numbers of patients.

read more

Content maybe subject to copyright    Report

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Tailoring inorganic nanoadjuvants towards next-generation vaccines

TL;DR: In this paper, the physicochemical properties of versatile inorganic nanoadjuvants, such as composition, size, morphology, shape, hydrophobicity, and surface charge, have been investigated for vaccine adjuvants.
Journal ArticleDOI

Competitive glucose metabolism as a target to boost bladder cancer immunotherapy.

TL;DR: Cancer cell and immune cell metabolism are discussed and the potential therapeutic targets within these processes are considered, including integrating the targeting of tumour metabolism into immunotherapy design seems a rational approach to improve the therapeutic efficacy of ICIs.
Journal ArticleDOI

Biomaterial-based scaffold for in situ chemo-immunotherapy to treat poorly immunogenic tumors.

TL;DR: Peritumorally injected, macroporous alginate gels loaded with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) for concentrating dendritic cells (DCs), CpG oligonucleotides, and a doxorubicin-iRGD conjugate enhance the immunogenic death of tumor cells and significantly improve antitumor efficacy against poorly immunogenic TNBCs.
Journal ArticleDOI

Interdependent IL-7 and IFN-γ signalling in T-cell controls tumour eradication by combined α-CTLA-4+α-PD-1 therapy

TL;DR: It is reported that concomitant blockade of CTLA-4 and PD-1 improves anti-tumour immune responses and synergistically eradicates tumour via an intricate interplay between IFN-γ/IFn-γR and IL-7/IL-7R pathways.
Journal ArticleDOI

Immune checkpoints and rheumatic diseases: what can cancer immunotherapy teach us?

TL;DR: It is argued that rheumatologists and oncologists should join forces to study these inhibitory immune molecules and an improved understanding of these immune checkpoints will enable both fields to make progress in exploiting inhibitoryimmune receptors therapeutically.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

The blockade of immune checkpoints in cancer immunotherapy

TL;DR: Preliminary clinical findings with blockers of additional immune-checkpoint proteins, such as programmed cell death protein 1 (PD1), indicate broad and diverse opportunities to enhance antitumour immunity with the potential to produce durable clinical responses.
Journal ArticleDOI

Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer

Ludmil B. Alexandrov, +84 more
- 22 Aug 2013 - 
TL;DR: It is shown that hypermutation localized to small genomic regions, ‘kataegis’, is found in many cancer types, and this results reveal the diversity of mutational processes underlying the development of cancer.
Related Papers (5)