ArticleOncoimmunology2025
Plasma protein dynamics during ipilimumab treatment in metastatic melanoma: associations with tumor response, adverse events and survival.
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- Prognostic value of C-reactive protein in patients with melanoma: a meta-analysis.Annals of medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Safety and efficacy of fecal microbiota transplantation in solid cancers resistant to immune checkpoint inhibitors: results of the MITRIC trial.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2026Trial
- Combining circulating inflammatory proteins and thymidine kinase activity to predict survival in melanoma patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors.Immuno-oncology technology · 2026Article
- Determinants of severity in immune checkpoint inhibitor-related pneumonitis: clinical, radiologic, and laboratory insights from real-life clinical data.BMC cancer · 2026Article
- Autoantibody profiling using microarray identifies biomarkers associated with chemoimmunotherapy efficacy and immune-related adverse events in lung cancer patients.Clinical and experimental medicine · 2025Article
- Higher levels of VEGF-A and TNFα in patients with immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced inflammatory arthritis.Arthritis research & therapy · 2025Article
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Abstract
The immune checkpoint inhibitor ipilimumab provides long term survival in some metastatic melanoma patients, but the majority has no benefit, and may experience serious side effects. Here, we investigated the dynamics of plasma cytokine concentrations and their potential utility for predicting treatment response, adverse events and overall survival (OS) in patients with metastatic melanoma undergoing ipilimumab monotherapy. A cohort of 148 patients was examined, with plasma samples collected prior to treatment initiation and at the end of the first and second treatment cycles. Concentrations of 48 plasma proteins were measured using a multiplex immunoassay. The results revealed a general increase in cytokine levels following the first ipilimumab dose, consistent with immune activation. Patients not responding to treatment exhibited significantly elevated baseline levels of G-CSF, IL-2RA, MIP-1a, and SCF, compared to tumor responders (
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