Trial reportBritish journal of cancer2025
Association of DNA damage response signals and oxidative stress status with nivolumab efficacy in patients with Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma.
Trial report in British journal of cancer, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03652142 (Predictive Biomarkers For Response To Nivolumab In Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma), which is not on this map. Cited by 5 papers.
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Predictive Biomarkers For Response To Nivolumab In Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- JADE: phase 3 study of sequential dostarlimab post chemoradiotherapy in patients with locally advanced unresected HNSCC.Future oncology (London, England) · 2026Trial
- Signals in Peripheral Blood: Tracking Redox Status and DNA Damage Response During the Progression of Multiple Myeloma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Breaking the Balance: Baseline Oxidative Stress and DNA Repair Capacity in Multiple Myeloma Therapy.Cancers · 2026Article
- DNA Damage Response and Redox Status in the Resistance of Multiple Myeloma Cells to Genotoxic Treatment.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Elucidating DNA Damage-Dependent Immune System Activation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
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Abstract
backgroundAccumulating evidence suggests that deregulation of DNA damage response (DDR) network affects multiple aspects of the immune system. Herein, we tested the hypothesis that DDR-related signals, measured in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC) patients, correlate with the response to immune checkpoint inhibitors.
methodsOxidative stress and DDR-related signals were evaluated in PBMCs from 26 healthy controls and 50 recurrent/metastatic HNSCC patients at baseline, who participated in a phase II nivolumab trial (NCT03652142). Spatial transcriptomics in three molecularly defined tissue compartments (tumour, leucocyte, macrophage) from biopsies of overlapping cases were also investigated.
resultsPBMCs from responders to nivolumab therapy showed significantly lower oxidative stress, endogenous DNA damage, DNA repair capacities and apoptosis rates compared with non-responders (all P < 0.04). The analysis of tissue RNA in situ data illustrated that DNA repair pathways showed enrichment in the macrophage compartment of baseline tissue biopsies of responders compared with non-responders (P = 0.049).
conclusionsOur findings demonstrate that oxidative stress and deregulated DDR-related signals measured in PBMCs from HNSCC patients at baseline correlate with response to nivolumab and, if further validated, may be exploited as novel non-invasive biomarkers and the design of clinical trials.
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