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Metastatic recurrence poses a significant challenge in cancer treatment, impacting patient survival and prognosis. Understanding the biological mechanisms behind it is essential for improving treatment strategies and patient outcomes. Lung …
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Despite the success of combined cytotoxic T-lymphocyte associated protein 4 (CTLA-4) and programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1) immune checkpoint blockade (cICB), the majority of patients with melanoma fail to respond or experience severe t…
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Predicting neoadjuvant immunochemotherapy (NICT) response remains a critical challenge in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) management. While the gut bacteriome’s role in immunotherapy has been established, the mycobiome&rsquo…
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The recent phase II randomized stereotactic ablative radiotherapy with and without immunotherapy (I-SABR) trial has shown improved event-free survival (EFS) when adding immunotherapy to stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) for early-st…
Spontaneously immunogenic hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), identified by a dense immune cell infiltrate (ICI), responds better to immunotherapy, although no validated biomarker exists to identify these cases. We used machine learning (ML) to quantify I…
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Bladder cancer is unique among visceral malignancies in that urine, which can be easily obtained, has prolonged contact with bladder tumors. Urinary biomarkers offer the potential to provide insight into the host and tumor immune microenvir…
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With nearly one-third of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and PD-L1 Tumor Proportion Score≥50% surviving beyond 5 years following first-line pembrolizumab, long-term outcomes challenge traditional paradigms of ca…
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The sustained effectiveness of anti-programmed cell death protein-1 (PD1) treatment is limited to a subgroup of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) due to the tumor microenvironment heterogeneity, highlighting the need to identify …
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The presence of tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS) in solid tumors, including Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC), is associated with a better prognosis and a better response to immunotherapy with immune checkpoint inhibition (ICI). The detailed me…
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Immune-related myotoxicity (irM), including irMyocarditis and irMyositis, is a severe complication of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). Markers to identify patients at risk are missing. In this retrospective multicenter cohort study, we …
