Background
The gut microbiota is increasingly recognized as a critical external regulator along the gut-liver axis, influencing hepatocarcinogenesis and modulating responses to immunotherapy. However, the specific microbial determinants, underlying me…
Inhibitory immune pathways have gained considerable attention following the clinical success of immune checkpoint inhibitors in cancer. While much focus has been placed on classical checkpoints such as programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1)/programmed…
Background
Dual anti-CTLA-4/PD-1 inhibitors show efficacy in numerous malignancies. We are the first to report on the efficacy of ipilimumab-nivolumab immunotherapy in a dedicated cohort of patients with gynecologic clear cell carcinomas (CCCs), which…
Purpose
ASP9801, an oncolytic virus encoding interleukin-7 and interleukin-12, was assessed for safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and antitumor activity in patients with advanced solid tumors in a Phase 1 study.
Methods
The study comprised Part…
Background
ERBB2/HER2 is overexpressed or mutated in ~15% of gastric cancers due to amplification or mutation of the ERBB2 locus. While the tumor cell-intrinsic consequences of ERBB2 overexpression are well understood, much less is known about its eff…
Oncolytic peptides (OLPs) constitute an emerging class of immunotherapeutics that combine direct cancer cell lysis with immune activation. Indeed, OLPs induce rapid immunogenic cell death by disrupting intracellular membranes, which culminates with th…
Background
The acidic tumor microenvironment (TME) in solid tumors, driven by abnormal metabolism and lactic acid accumulation, suppresses chimeric antigen receptor-T (CAR-T) cell efficacy while posing safety risks from on-target, off-tumor toxicity (…
Background
Biliary tract cancer (BTC) is an aggressive malignancy with limited treatment options and a poor prognosis. Although immune checkpoint inhibitors combined with chemotherapy have improved patient outcomes, their toxicity remains concerning. …
Background
The local effect of radiotherapy (RT) is enhanced by CD8+ T-cell responses elicited through dendritic cell (DC)-mediated cross-presentation of tumor antigens, facilitated by RT-induced damage-associated molecular patterns. The abscopal effe…
Background
NUT carcinoma is a rare but highly lethal solid tumor without an effective standard of care. NUT carcinoma is caused by bromodomain-containing NUTM1 fusion oncogenes, most commonly BRD4::NUTM1. BRD4::NUTM1 recruits p300 to acetylate H3K27 f…
