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ReviewBiomedicines2021

Linking Immunity with Genomics in Sarcomas: Is Genomic Complexity an Immunogenic Trigger?

Siddh van Oost, Debora M Meijer, Marieke L Kuijjer, Judith V M G Bovée, Noel F C C de Miranda

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Review in Biomedicines, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Siddh van OostDepartment of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, 2333 ZA Leiden, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-2281-5780
Debora M MeijerDepartment of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, 2333 ZA Leiden, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-6399-3084
Marieke L KuijjerDepartment of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, 2333 ZA Leiden, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-6280-3130
Judith V M G BovéeDepartment of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, 2333 ZA Leiden, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-1155-0481
Noel F C C de MirandaDepartment of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, 2333 ZA Leiden, The Netherlands.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sarcomas comprise a collection of highly heterogeneous malignancies that can be grossly grouped in the categories of sarcomas with simple or complex genomes. Since the outcome for most sarcoma patients has barely improved in the last decades, there is an urgent need for improved therapies. Immunotherapy, and especially T cell checkpoint blockade, has recently been a game-changer in cancer therapy as it produced significant and durable treatment responses in several cancer types. Currently, only a small fraction of sarcoma patients benefit from immunotherapy, supposedly due to a general lack of somatically mutated antigens (neoantigens) and spontaneous T cell immunity in most cancers. However, genomic events resulting from chromosomal instability are frequent in sarcomas with complex genomes and could drive immunity in those tumors. Improving our understanding of the mechanisms that shape the immune landscape of sarcomas will be crucial to overcoming the current challenges of sarcoma immunotherapy. This review focuses on what is currently known about the tumor microenvironment in sarcomas and how this relates to their genomic features. Moreover, we discuss novel therapeutic strategies that leverage the tumor microenvironment to increase the clinical efficacy of immunotherapy, and which could provide new avenues for the treatment of sarcomas.

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checkpoint blockadegenomicsheterogeneityimmunotherapysarcomatumor microenvironment

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PMID34440251
PMCPMC8391750

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