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Cervical cancer is a common gynecological malignancy. Currently, synchronous radiotherapy and chemotherapy based on the single drug cisplatin are the standard treatment regimen for locally advanced cervical cancer. Compared with simple radiotherapy and chemotherapy, the use of immunosuppressive combination regimens in concurrent radiotherapy and chemotherapy is more likely to improve local control and reduce distant metastasis. In recent years, immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have been widely studied as potential therapeutic targets for cervical cancer. Immunocheckpoint inhibitors can improve the activation of immune cells and enhance the body’s anti-tumor immunity. In this paper, the mechanism of immune checkpoint inhibitors was summarized, and the therapeutic effects of various monoclonal antibodies were reviewed to provide a new perspective for immunotherapy in patients with cervical cancer.
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Triple negative breast cancer is a subtype of breast cancer with poor prognosis and lack of effective treatment. Cyclin dependent kinase (CDK) 4/6 inhibitors promote antitumor immunity by influencing the triple negative breast cancer immune microenvironment, such as increasing the tumor cell surface pragrammed death-ligand 1 protein expression, enhancing T cell activation and antigen presentation, changing the proportion of T cell subgroup and inducing lymphocyte infiltration. The change of immune microenvironment is related to tumor progression, but its mechanism is extremely complex. Exploring the mechanism of CDK4/6 inhibitor affecting immune microenvironment and its biomarkers can provide a new direction for the diagnosis and treatment of triple negative breast cancer.
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@#V-domain immunoglobulin suppressor of T-cell activation (VISTA) is a member of the B7 family that maintains homeostasis in T cells and myeloid cells.Blocking VISTA inhibits tumor development in in vitro and in vivo trials, and is an important target for tumor immunotherapy.This review focuses on its structural features, expression and biological functions in tumor microenvironment, summarizes the current stage of small molecule inhibitors and antibodies targeting VISTA, and discusses the research approaches.It aims to provide a rationale for subsequent study on VISTA and the development of related immune checkpoint antitumor drugs.
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Immonocheckpoint inhabitors have become the focus of tumor therapy in recent years, and more and more tumor patients benefit from immunotherapy. Due to the high cost of immunotherapy, the benefit rate of immunotherapy for untested population is only 20%. Therefore, accurate selection of predictive biomarkers is crucial for individualized immunotherapy of tumor patients. Biomarkers reflecting tumor immune microenvironment and tumor cell intrinsic features, such as programmed death-1 (PD-1) and its ligand PD-L1, tumor mutational burden and microsatellite instability, have been proved to associate with treatment effect of anti-PD-1/anti-PD-L1 therapy. At the same time, markers based on tissue and serum emerge in endlessly. How to truly achieve accurate immunotherapy for tumor needs further clinical research.
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@#Conventional treatment of glioma has not significantly improved the prognosis of patients, so people pay more attention to the potential of immuno-checkpoint inhibitors in the treatment of glioma. This article reviews the expression and mechanism of some negative immune checkpoints in gliomas, such as programmed death-1 (PD-1), programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1), cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA-4), T-cell immunoglobulin and mucin-domain containing-3 (TIM-3), lymphocyte-activation gene-3 (LAG-3), T cellimmunoreceptor with Ig and ITIM domains (TIGIT), B7-H4 and V-domain immunoglobulin suppressor of T-cell activation (VISTA), as well as progress of immune checkpoint inhibitors in clinical research, with a prospect of their future in immunotherapy.
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Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is a kind of malignant tumor characterized by metastasis and local invasion. Its recurrence rate is high after surgery and radiotherapy, and the prognosis and quality of life are poor. In recent years, programmed death-1 (PD-1) inhibitors have been recommended in National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines for the treatment of recurrent, unresectable, and metastatic HNSCC, and their efficacy has been remarkable. PD-1 inhibitors constitute a new treatment for the patients with advanced HNSCC who are refractory to platinum-based chemotherapy and can increase the probability of surgical resection, reduce the risk of postoperative dysfunction, and improve the survival and quality of life. This article reviews the structure and mechanism of the PD-1/PD-L1 immunocheckpoint, as well as research progress on its inhibitors in the treatment of HNSCC.
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In China, most patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) were diagnosed with advanced or metastatic disease on first admission. These patients were treated by chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or targeted therapy. However, the 5-year overall survival rate is still low. Immunocheckpoint blockades adjust the immune function, dispatch immune escape, enhance T cell activation, and kill tumor cells. Immunocheckpoint blockade becomes one of the important methods of anti-tumor treatments. This approach may also change the model of NSCLC treatment because of its promising anti-tumor activity. This review summarizes the clinical trials on immu-nocheckpoint blockades in NSCLC and the possibility of combining this technique with other treatments.
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The blockade of targeted immune checkpoint is one of the most promising approaches to activate therapeutic antitu-mor immunity. The immune checkpoint refers to a plethora of inhibitory pathways in the immune system. These pathways are crucial for maintaining self-tolerance and modulating the duration and amplitude of physiological immune responses in peripheral tissues to minimize collateral tissue damage. Tumors co-opt certain immune-checkpoint pathways as a major mechanism of immune resistance. Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 antibodies were the first of this class of immunotherapeutics to acquire approval from the US Food and Drug Administration. Preliminary clinical findings with blockers of additional immune-checkpoint proteins, such as pro-grammed cell death protein 1, indicate broad and diverse opportunities to enhance anti-tumor immunity with the potential to produce du-rable clinical responses. Classic chemotherapy exerts significant immunomodulatory effects on tumor cells via multiple mechanisms. Therefore, the combination of immunotherapy, including immune checkpoint blockade with chemotherapy, is a new promising trend in anti-tumor immunotherapy.