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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer type and one of the leading causes of cancer-related death worldwide. The treatment of advanced metastatic CRC relies on classical chemotherapy combinations (5-fluorouracil, oxaliplati…
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Impairment of Akt signaling has been observed in antigen-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) during chronic viral infections or tumor progression. Despite numerous studies emphasizing Akt’s role in driving CTL effector functions, …
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Perturbation of the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway can instruct effector versus memory cell fate of tumor antigen-specific T cells in preclinical models. In this study, we sought to understand the impact of rapamycin (siroli…
Checkpoint inhibitors have led to remarkable benefits in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), yet response rates remain below expectations. High-dimensional analysis and mechanistic experiments in clinical samples and relevant NSCLC models uncovered th…
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Owing to their roles in promoting T cell and natural killer (NK) cell activation and proliferation, interleukins-2 (IL-2) and interleukins-15 (IL-15) have been pursued as promising pathways to target in cancer immunotherapy. Nonetheless, th…
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Neoadjuvant immunotherapy has become the new standard of care for stage III melanoma. This study sought to describe the metabolic changes seen with fludeoxyglucose-18-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) following neoadjuvant immunotherap…
Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL), an aggressive T-cell malignancy associated with human T-cell leukemia virus type 1, presents significant therapeutic challenges due to high relapse rates and resistance to therapy. Here, we present the first repo…
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The prototypical type I natural killer T (NKT) cell agonist, α-galactosylceramide (α-GalCer), has shown only minimal effects against solid tumors in the clinic. The most promising clinical application of α-GalCer currently…
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The interaction between stromal cells and the tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) is acknowledged as a critical driver in the progression of prostate cancer (PCa). Monoamine oxidase A (MAOA), a mitochondrial enzyme that catalyzes the degra…
Clinical trials of cancer immunotherapy (IO) were historically based on a drug development paradigm built for chemotherapies. The remarkable clinical activity of programmed cell death protein 1/programmed death ligand 1 blockade, chimeric antigen rece…
