ArticleJournal for immunotherapy of cancer2024
Circulating T cell status and molecular imaging may predict clinical benefit of neoadjuvant PD-1 blockade in oral cancer.
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- Computational and AI-Enabled Imaging Biomarkers for Predicting and Assessing Immunotherapy Response in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Systematic Review with Functional Meta-Synthesis.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Pooled it
- Updated pan-tumor guidelines for neoadjuvant scoring of pathologic response: a joint SITC and INMC effort.Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology · 2026Guideline
- Pre-existing systemic immune state and dynamic myeloid remodeling shape response to neoadjuvant PD-L1 blockade.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2026Trial
- CCL3+ Neutrophil Signature Predicts Response to Neoadjuvant Toripalimab plus Chemotherapy in Patients with Hypopharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Phase II Trial.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2026Trial
- The emerging role of neoadjuvant immunotherapy in locally advanced oral squamous cell carcinoma: progress and challenges.International journal of surgery (London, England) · 2026Article
- Current Insights into the Role of Peripheral Blood Immune Cell Phenotypes in Resistance to Cancer Therapies.Oncology research · 2026Review
- Next-generation immunotherapies for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: targeting novel immune checkpoints.Annals of medicine · 2025Review
- A 40-year bibliometric analysis of global research on neoadjuvant chemotherapy for oral cancer (1985-2024).Discover oncology · 2025Article
- Circulating PD-1Frontiers in immunology · 2025Article
- Secretome and immune cell attraction analysis of head and neck cancers.Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundAddition of neoadjuvant immune checkpoint inhibition to standard-of-care interventions for locally advanced oral cancer could improve clinical outcome.
methodsIn this study, 16 evaluable patients with stage III/IV oral cancer were treated with one dose of 480 mg nivolumab 3 weeks prior to surgery. Primary objectives were safety, feasibility, and suitability of programmed death receptor ligand-1 positron emission tomography (PD-L1 PET) as a biomarker for response. Imaging included
resultsGrade III or higher adverse events were not observed and treatment was not delayed in relation to nivolumab administration and other study procedures. Six patients (38%) had a pathological response, of whom three (19%) had a major (≥90%) pathological response (MPR). Tumor PD-L1 PET uptake (quantified using standard uptake value) was not statistically different in patients with or without MPR (median 5.3 vs 3.4). All major responders showed a significantly postnivolumab decreased signal on FDG PET. PBMC immune phenotyping showed higher levels of CD8
conclusionTogether these data support that neoadjuvant treatment of advanced-stage oral cancers with nivolumab was safe and induced an MPR in a promising 19% of patients. Response was associated with decreased FDG PET uptake as well as activation status of peripheral T cell populations.
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