ReviewCancers2021
Tumor Microenvironment Features as Predictive Biomarkers of Response to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors (ICI) in Metastatic Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma (mccRCC).
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- Impact of pretreatment body mass index on clinical outcomes in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma receiving first-line immune checkpoint inhibitor-based therapy: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Investigative and clinical urology · 2024Pooled it
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- Smart Colloidal Systems as Drug Delivery and Therapeutic Modulation Platforms for Renal Cell Carcinoma.International journal of nanomedicine · 2026Review
- A novel migrasome-associated lncRNA model for clear cell renal cell carcinoma prognosis and immune response prediction.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Prediction of PD-L1 and CD68 in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma with Green Learning.Journal of imaging · 2025Article
- Biomarker-Driven Approaches to Bone Metastases: From Molecular Mechanisms to Clinical Applications.Biomedicines · 2025Review
- Evidence of DNA methylation heterogeneity and epipolymorphism in kidney cancer tissue samples.Oncogene · 2025Article
- Exploration of a prognostic signature for mitochondria-related genes and the therapeutic prospects of vorinostat in clear cell renal cell carcinoma.Translational andrology and urology · 2025Article
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- Identification of PI3K-AKT Pathway-Related Genes and Construction of Prognostic Prediction Model for ccRCC.Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2024Article
- DCS, a novel classifier system based on disulfidptosis reveals tumor microenvironment heterogeneity and guides frontline therapy for clear cell renal carcinoma.Journal of the National Cancer Center · 2024Article
- Single-cell sequencing reveals novel proliferative cell type: a key player in renal cell carcinoma prognosis and therapeutic response.Clinical and experimental medicine · 2024Article
- Analyses of tumor microenvironment in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma receiving immunotherapy (Meet-URO 18 study).Future oncology (London, England) · 2024Article
- Comprehensive analyses of immune tumor microenvironment in papillary renal cell carcinoma.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2023Article
- The role of spleen volume change in predicting immunotherapy response in metastatic renal cell carcinoma.BMC cancer · 2023Article
- HOOK1 Inhibits the Progression of Renal Cell Carcinoma via TGF-β and TNFSF13B/VEGF-A Axis.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the seventh most frequently diagnosed malignancy with an increasing incidence in developed countries. Despite a greater understanding of the cancer biology, which has led to an increase of therapeutic options, metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma (mccRCC) still have a poor prognosis with a median five-years survival rate lower than 10%. The standard of care for mccRCC has changed dramatically over the past decades with the emergence of new treatments: anti-VEGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors, mTOR Inhibitors and immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) such as anti-Programmed cell-Death 1 (PD-1) and anti-anti-Programmed Death Ligand-1 (PD-L1) used as monotherapy or as a combination with anti CTLA-4 or anti angiogenic therapies. In the face of these rising therapeutic options, the question of the therapeutic sequences is crucial. Predictive biomarkers are urgently required to provide a personalized treatment for each patient. Disappointingly, the usual ICI biomarkers, PD-L1 expression and Tumor Mutational Burden, approved in melanoma or non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have failed to distinguish good and poor mccRCC responders to ICI. The tumor microenvironment is known to be involved in ICI response. Innovative technologies can be used to explore the immune contexture of tumors and to find predictive and prognostic biomarkers. Recent comprehensive molecular characterization of RCC has led to the development of robust genomic signatures, which could be used as predictive biomarkers. This review will provide an overview of the components of the RCC tumor microenvironment and discuss their role in disease progression and resistance to ICI. We will then highlight the current and future ICI predictive biomarkers assessed in mccRCC with a major focus on immunohistochemistry markers and genomic signatures.
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