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Resistance Mechanisms to Anti-PD Cancer Immunotherapy
Vesely MD, Zhang T, Chen L. Resistance Mechanisms to Anti-PD Cancer Immunotherapy. Annual Review Of Immunology 2022, 40: 45-74. PMID: 35471840, DOI: 10.1146/annurev-immunol-070621-030155.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus StatementsConceptsAnti-PD therapyCancer immunotherapyMechanisms of resistanceImmune inhibitory moleculesFraction of patientsResistance mechanismsNormalization cancer immunotherapyAdditional immunotherapyPD-1Clinical evidenceAntigen presentationT cellsSolid tumorsTherapy resistanceH1 pathwayTumor microenvironmentImmunotherapyInhibitory moleculesHematopoietic malignanciesCancer treatmentTherapyPatientsCurrent studyCancer dataMalignancy
2021
A Burned-Out CD8+ T-cell Subset Expands in the Tumor Microenvironment and Curbs Cancer Immunotherapy
Sanmamed MF, Nie X, Desai SS, Villaroel-Espindola F, Badri T, Zhao D, Kim AW, Ji L, Zhang T, Quinlan E, Cheng X, Han X, Vesely MD, Nassar AF, Sun J, Zhang Y, Kim TK, Wang J, Melero I, Herbst RS, Schalper KA, Chen L. A Burned-Out CD8+ T-cell Subset Expands in the Tumor Microenvironment and Curbs Cancer Immunotherapy. Cancer Discovery 2021, 11: 1700-1715. PMID: 33658301, PMCID: PMC9421941, DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-20-0962.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNon-small cell lung cancerTumor-infiltrating lymphocytesExhausted T cellsTIL subsetsTumor microenvironmentCancer immunotherapyT cellsAdvanced non-small cell lung cancerPatient-derived tumor xenograft modelAnti-PD therapyT cell subsetsCell lung cancerPotential tissue biomarkersBaseline tumor tissueLung cancer tissuesSingle-cell mass cytometryTumor xenograft modelApoptotic CD8Dysfunctional CD8Immunotherapy resistancePD-1Activation markersAdjacent nontumoral tissuesPathway-dependent mannerLung cancer