2023
A bedside to bench study of anti-PD-1, anti-CD40, and anti-CSF1R indicates that more is not necessarily better
Djureinovic D, Weiss S, Krykbaeva I, Qu R, Vathiotis I, Moutafi M, Zhang L, Perdigoto A, Wei W, Anderson G, Damsky W, Hurwitz M, Johnson B, Schoenfeld D, Mahajan A, Hsu F, Miller-Jensen K, Kluger Y, Sznol M, Kaech S, Bosenberg M, Jilaveanu L, Kluger H. A bedside to bench study of anti-PD-1, anti-CD40, and anti-CSF1R indicates that more is not necessarily better. Molecular Cancer 2023, 22: 182. PMID: 37964379, PMCID: PMC10644655, DOI: 10.1186/s12943-023-01884-x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsStable diseasePartial responseMacrophage populationsThree-drug regimenUnconfirmed partial responsePhase I trialLimited treatment optionsMonocyte/macrophage populationNon-classical monocytesMurine melanoma modelTreatment-related changesResultsThirteen patientsWorse survivalI trialInflammatory tumorPatient populationTreatment optionsImmune cellsDisease progressionMurine studiesPreclinical modelsResistant melanomaAntigen presentationMurine modelCyTOF analysis
2009
Betting on immunotherapy for melanoma
Sznol M. Betting on immunotherapy for melanoma. Current Oncology Reports 2009, 11: 397-404. PMID: 19679015, DOI: 10.1007/s11912-009-0053-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAdvanced melanomaAntigen-specific T cell expansionEffective antitumor immune responseAntitumor immune responseEffective treatment optionT cell expansionAntigen-specific lymphocytesTumor defense mechanismsDurable remissionsPreparative regimensConditioning regimensAdoptive immunotherapyImmune therapyCancer vaccinesImmune activationTreatment optionsPredictive biomarkersPrimary tumorTumor immunobiologyClinical trialsAntigen presentationImmune responseHigh riskNew cytokinePatients