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Mucosal melanomas (MM) arise from mucosal melanocytes at various anatomical sites. These tumors are rare, highly aggressive, and often associated with poor outcomes. Current treatments, including immune checkpoint inhibitors, show limited e…
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The gut microbiota plays a critical role in regulating immune homeostasis and modulating responses to cancer immunotherapies. However, the impact of antibiotic-induced dysbiosis in patients with multiple myeloma (MM) treated with bispecific…
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Immune-related hepatitis (ir-hepatitis) ranks among the most frequent adverse events of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). Limited knowledge exists regarding the incidence, characteristics, and treatment of patients having an inadequate r…
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Anti-programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) immunotherapy has revolutionized the treatment of stage III and IV melanoma. Real-world data on its resistance is needed to facilitate the development of combinatorial approaches to overcome anti-…
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The efficacy of combined chemotherapy and programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1) immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) is constrained by the collateral cytotoxicity of chemotherapy toward proliferating tumor-specific CD8+ T (TTST) cells, a popul…
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Antibody therapeutics have revolutionized cancer treatment, but their use is increasingly associated with adverse events. Among these, anaphylaxis is particularly concerning due to its severity and unpredictability. Our previous studies dem…
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In murine studies, we demonstrated that a DNA vaccine encoding the androgen receptor (pTVG-AR) given prior to androgen deprivation elicited prostate tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and an antitumor response. The current trial evaluated this …
Local immunotherapy comprises broad classes of therapeutics that aim to trigger a robust “in situ” immune response that can ultimately generate systemic antitumor immunity. These agents are appealing as resistance to standard immune checkpoint inhibit…
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Immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy (ICI) with nivolumab+ipilimumab is a first-line (1L) standard for metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC), yet outcomes remain heterogeneous. Increasing evidence suggests that host factors infl…
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Antitumor immune responses induced by oncolytic immunotherapy (OI) are often followed by upregulation of programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1). As such, the combination of OI with blockade of the programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1)/PD-L1 axi…
