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ReviewFuture oncology (London, England)2025

Tislelizumab for the treatment of advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

Kazuhiro Shiraishi, Shun Yamamoto, Ken Kato

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Review in Future oncology (London, England), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Kazuhiro ShiraishiDepartment of Head and Neck, Esophageal Medical Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID 0009-0004-3131-1829
Shun YamamotoDepartment of Head and Neck, Esophageal Medical Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-9065-781X
Ken KatoDepartment of Head and Neck, Esophageal Medical Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) patients had poor prognosis and few effective drugs based on the randomized controlled trials (RCTs). In such a circumstance, recent RCTs have shown the clinical efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) as first- or second-line treatment for advanced ESCC patients. Tislelizumab is one of the anti-Programmed-Death-1 (PD-1) antibodies; at first, tislelizumab monotherapy showed clinical efficacy as a second-line treatment for advanced ESCC patients based on the results of the RATIONALE-302 trial. Since then, tislelizumab plus doublet chemotherapy has shown superiority in overall survival compared to doublet chemotherapy for untreated advanced ESCC patients in the RATIONALE-306 trial. In this review, we share the overview of the development of tislelizumab and discuss the future perspectives on ICIs for advanced ESCC patients. In our opinion, tislelizumab plus doublet chemotherapy is one of the first-line standard treatments for advanced ESCC patients regardless of Programmed cell Death ligand 1 expression. Some other ICI-containing treatments showed clinical efficacy for untreated ESCC patients; we need further investigation to select these treatments appropriately.

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Antibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedEsophageal NeoplasmsEsophageal Squamous Cell CarcinomaImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsHumansNeoplasm StagingProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptorRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicTreatment OutcomeAntibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptortislelizumabEsophageal canceresophageal squamous cell carcinomaimmune checkpoint inhibitorRATIONALE-302RATIONALE-306tislelizumab

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PMID40257370
PMCPMC12077467

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