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ReviewCancer cell2025

Navigating established and emerging biomarkers for immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy.

Stephen L Wang, Timothy A Chan

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Review in Cancer cell, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

53 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Stephen L WangCenter for Immunotherapy and Precision Immuno-Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA; Medical Scientist Training Program, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA; Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Timothy A ChanCenter for Immunotherapy and Precision Immuno-Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA; National Center for Regenerative Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA. Electronic address: chant2@ccf.org.

Funding

MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM007250 · NIGMS · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI HUANG, ALEX YEE-CHEN · 1985 to 2023
$33.4M
Translational and Clinical Trial Correlates CoreU54CA274513 · NCI · CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COM-CWRU · PI Timothy An-thy Chan · 2022 to 2026
$9.3M
TOWARDS PRECISION IMMUNO-ONCOLOGY: UNRAVELING THE GENOMIC DETERMINANTS AND MECHANISMS UNDERLYING IMMUNOTHERAPY EFFICACY AND RESISTANCER35CA232097 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI CHAN, TIMOTHY AN-THY · 2018 to 2024
$7.0M
Medical Scientist Training Program at Case Western Reserve UniversityT32GM152319 · NIGMS · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI Heather Broihier, Alex Yee-Chen Huang · 2024 to 2026
$5.1M
Pre-exposure Immunologic Health and Linkages to SARS-COV2 Serologic Responses, Endothelial Cell Resilience, and Cardiovascular Complications: Defining the mechanistic basis of high risk endotypes.U01CA260513 · NCI · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI CHAN, TIMOTHY AN-THY, ZIDAR, DAVID A. · 2020 to 2024
$3.4M
Elucidating genetics of response to immune checkpoint blockade in lung cancerR01CA205426 · NCI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI CHAN, TIMOTHY AN-THY · 2017 to 2021
$3.2M
Defining features of the neoantigen-specific T cell response against a common EGFR mutation in lung cancerF30CA294669 · NCI · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI Stephen Lee Wang · 2024 to 2026
$164k
NCI NIH HHS F30 CA294669NCI NIH HHS R01 CA205426NCI NIH HHS R35 CA232097NCI NIH HHS U01 CA260513NCI NIH HHS U54 CA274513NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007250NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM152319
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have improved outcomes of patients with many different cancers. These antibodies target molecules such as programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) or cytotoxic T lymphocyte associated protein 4 (CTLA-4) which normally function to limit immune activity. Treatment with ICIs reactivates T cells to destroy tumor cells in a highly specific manner, which in some patients, results in dramatic remissions and durable disease control. Over the last decade, much effort has been directed at characterizing factors that drive efficacy and resistance to ICI therapy. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved biomarkers for ICI therapy have facilitated more judicious treatment of cancer patients and transformed the field of precision oncology. Yet, adaptive immunity against cancers is complex, and newer data have revealed the potential utility of other biomarkers. In this review, we discuss the utility of currently approved biomarkers and highlight how emerging biomarkers can further improve the identification of patients who benefit from ICIs.

Indexed as

Biomarkers, TumorImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsNeoplasmsCTLA-4 AntigenHumansProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptorBiomarkers, TumorCTLA-4 AntigenImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsProgrammed Cell Death 1 Receptor

Identifiers

PMID40154483
PMCPMC13171157

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