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The war on cancer began a little more than 40 years ago as a national research program to radically improve the survival of patients with cancer, a leading cause of death in the United States and worldwide. The main weapons deployed have been surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, treatments that often carry risks and/or cause adverse side effects ...
Thomas F, Gajewski, Ton, Schumacher
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The inter-link of ageing, cancer and immunity: findings from real-world retrospective study
Background Although the concept of declined immune function associated with cancer has been accepted extensively, real-world clinical studies focusing on analysis of the peripheral blood immune changes underlying ageing, immunity and cancer are scarce ...
Xiaomin Fu +13 more
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Exhaustion of CAR T cells: potential causes and solutions
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has attracted attention for its promising therapeutic effects on hematological malignancies. However, there are problems such as relapse during long-term follow-up and limited effect on solid tumors with ...
Taku Kouro +2 more
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Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) and hypoxia are central players in the complex process of tumor cell-stroma interaction and are involved in the alteration of the anti-tumor immune response by impacting both cancer and immune cell populations ...
Linda Ziani +3 more
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Immunotherapy & thoracic cancers [PDF]
Thoracic malignancies present a significant global health burden with the incidence and mortality of both lung cancer and malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) increasing by year. Lung cancer, including non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and small cell lung cancer (SCLC), is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths, worldwide.
Silvia Novello, Antonio Rossi
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Background Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most prevalent cancer worldwide and poses a serious challenge for clinicians. Previous studies have shown promising results in patients with Microsatellite Stable microsatellite-stable CRC refractory to ...
Yong Zhang +5 more
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Persistent mutant oncogene specific T cells in two patients benefitting from anti-PD-1
Background Several predictive biomarkers are currently approved or are under investigation for the selection of patients for checkpoint blockade. Tumor PD-L1 expression is used for stratification of non-small cell lung (NSCLC) patients, with tumor ...
Kellie N. Smith +40 more
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Background and ObjectiveThe results of the CheckMate 025 trial established the status of nivolumab in the second-line treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC), with an objective response rate (ORR) of 25% and a complete response (CR) rate of 1%
Lingdi Zhao +16 more
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Recent advances in immunotherapies: from infection and autoimmunity, to cancer, and back again
For at least 300 years the immune system has been targeted to improve human health. Decades of work advancing immunotherapies against infection and autoimmunity paved the way for the current explosion in cancer immunotherapies.
Samantha L. Bucktrout +2 more
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