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ReviewJournal of Cancer2025

Strategies to Overcome PD-1/PD-L1 Blockade Resistance: Focusing on Combination with Immune Checkpoint Blockades.

Dinglin Liu, Haoyue Xiao, Ying Xiang, Dian Zhong, Yuchen Liu, Yunfei Wang, Weijia Zhang

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Review in Journal of Cancer, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Dinglin LiuDepartment of Oncology, First Affiliated Hospital of Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei 434023, China.
Haoyue XiaoLaboratory of Oncology, Center for Molecular Medicine, School of Basic Medicine, Health Science Center, Yangtze University, 1 Nanhuan Road, Jingzhou, Hubei 434023, China.
Ying XiangDepartment of Oncology, First Affiliated Hospital of Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei 434023, China.
Dian ZhongLaboratory of Oncology, Center for Molecular Medicine, School of Basic Medicine, Health Science Center, Yangtze University, 1 Nanhuan Road, Jingzhou, Hubei 434023, China.
Yuchen LiuLaboratory of Oncology, Center for Molecular Medicine, School of Basic Medicine, Health Science Center, Yangtze University, 1 Nanhuan Road, Jingzhou, Hubei 434023, China.
Yunfei WangLaboratory of Oncology, Center for Molecular Medicine, School of Basic Medicine, Health Science Center, Yangtze University, 1 Nanhuan Road, Jingzhou, Hubei 434023, China.
Weijia ZhangDepartment of Oncology, First Affiliated Hospital of Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei 434023, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years, immune checkpoint blockades (ICBs) have made rapid progress in the field of cancer treatment, providing significant therapeutic effects and survival benefits, especially in patients with advanced refractory tumors. PD-1/PD-L1 blockade is one of the most widely used ICBs. However, its application is limited by low response rate and drug resistance. It is of great significance to investigate the complex mechanisms of PD-1/PD-L1 blockade resistance. In this review, we outline some crucial aspects, including lack of effector T cells, lack of target PD-1/PD-L1, poor immunogenicity of tumors, immunosuppressive TME, and other mechanisms (such as metabolism, epigenetic alterations, and gut microbiota). Combination therapy has become a promising strategy to overcome drug resistance. Based on the upregulation of other immune checkpoints after PD-1/PD-L1 blockade treatment, we focus on the combination with other ICBs, including CTLA-4, TIM-3, LAG-3, TIGIT, VISTA, and some emerging immune checkpoints, so as to provide evidence for improving the benefit of ICBs in cancers.

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combination therapyimmune checkpoint blockadePD-1PD-L1resistance

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PMID40861801
PMCPMC12374963

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