2023
Circulating and Intratumoral Immune Determinants of Response to Atezolizumab plus Bevacizumab in Patients with Variant Histology or Sarcomatoid Renal Cell Carcinoma
Saliby R, Zarif T, Bakouny Z, Shah V, Xie W, Flippot R, Denize T, Kane M, Madsen K, Ficial M, Hirsch L, Wei X, Steinharter J, Harshman L, Vaishampayan U, Severgnini M, McDermott D, Lee G, Xu W, Van Allen E, McGregor B, Signoretti S, Choueiri T, McKay R, Braun D. Circulating and Intratumoral Immune Determinants of Response to Atezolizumab plus Bevacizumab in Patients with Variant Histology or Sarcomatoid Renal Cell Carcinoma. Cancer Immunology Research 2023, 11: 1114-1124. PMID: 37279009, PMCID: PMC10526700, DOI: 10.1158/2326-6066.cir-22-0996.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRenal cell carcinomaT cellsWorse PFSImmunotherapy responseCell carcinomaPeripheral immune cell populationsWorse progression-free survivalSarcomatoid renal cell carcinomaPhase II clinical trialImmunotherapy-based combinationsValue of tumourPoor-risk patientsProgression-free survivalImmune cell populationsVascular endothelial growth factorKidney cancer diagnosisEndothelial growth factorFuture biomarker studiesLack of responseInflammatory modulesExhausted CD8Variant histologyOverall survivalPD-L1Sarcomatoid differentiation
2021
Progressive immune dysfunction with advancing disease stage in renal cell carcinoma
Braun DA, Street K, Burke KP, Cookmeyer DL, Denize T, Pedersen CB, Gohil SH, Schindler N, Pomerance L, Hirsch L, Bakouny Z, Hou Y, Forman J, Huang T, Li S, Cui A, Keskin DB, Steinharter J, Bouchard G, Sun M, Pimenta EM, Xu W, Mahoney KM, McGregor BA, Hirsch MS, Chang SL, Livak KJ, McDermott DF, Shukla SA, Olsen LR, Signoretti S, Sharpe AH, Irizarry RA, Choueiri TK, Wu CJ. Progressive immune dysfunction with advancing disease stage in renal cell carcinoma. Cancer Cell 2021, 39: 632-648.e8. PMID: 33711273, PMCID: PMC8138872, DOI: 10.1016/j.ccell.2021.02.013.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsClear cell renal cell carcinomaM2-like macrophagesRenal cell carcinomaAdvanced diseaseExhausted CD8Cell carcinomaDisease stageAdvanced/metastaticImmune inhibitory pathwaysProgressive immune dysfunctionCell renal cell carcinomaAdjacent non-tumor tissuesTumor immune microenvironmentPro-inflammatory macrophagesM2-like polarizationNon-tumor tissuesMetastatic diseaseImmune dysfunctionWorse prognosisImmune microenvironmentImmune cellsCell dysfunctionExternal cohortInhibitory pathwaysMyeloid compartment