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ReviewCancer biology & therapy2024

A landscape of checkpoint blockade resistance in cancer: underlying mechanisms and current strategies to overcome resistance.

Ginette S Santiago-Sánchez, Kellsye P Fabian, James W Hodge

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Review in Cancer biology & therapy, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ginette S Santiago-SánchezCenter for Immuno-Oncology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0615-4583
Kellsye P FabianCenter for Immuno-Oncology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0273-5647
James W HodgeCenter for Immuno-Oncology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5282-3154

Funding

Vaccine and radiation for the therapy of human cancersZIABC010975 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI HODGE, JAMES · 2009 to 2025
$11.0M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The discovery of immune checkpoints and the development of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) have achieved a durable response in advanced-stage cancer patients. However, there is still a high proportion of patients who do not benefit from ICI therapy due to a lack of response when first treated (primary resistance) or detection of disease progression months after objective response is observed (acquired resistance). Here, we review the current FDA-approved ICI for the treatment of certain solid malignancies, evaluate the contrasting responses to checkpoint blockade in different cancer types, explore the known mechanisms associated with checkpoint blockade resistance (CBR), and assess current strategies in the field that seek to overcome these mechanisms. In order to improve current therapies and develop new ones, the immunotherapy field still has an unmet need in identifying other molecules that act as immune checkpoints, and uncovering other mechanisms that promote CBR.

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NeoplasmsHumansImmunotherapycheckpoint blockade resistancecheckpoint blockade resistance mechanismsimmune checkpoint blockadeImmune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI)immunotherapy resistance

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PMID38306161
PMCPMC10841019

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