Emerging immunotherapy for the treatment of esophageal cancer
| Autor: | Wooin Lee, A. Craig Lockhart, SeungJu Jackie Oh, Songhee Han |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0301 basic medicine
Oncology medicine.medical_specialty Esophageal Neoplasms Immune checkpoint inhibitors medicine.medical_treatment Cancer Vaccines Immunotherapy Adoptive Cell therapy 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Internal medicine medicine Humans Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology business.industry Cancer General Medicine Immunotherapy Esophageal cancer medicine.disease Prognosis Cancer treatment Survival Rate 030104 developmental biology Treatment modality 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Immunology Cancer vaccine business |
| Zdroj: | Expert opinion on investigational drugs. 25(6) |
| ISSN: | 1744-7658 |
| Popis: | Esophageal cancer is the third most common cancer of the gastrointestinal tract. Despite new therapies, the prognosis for patients with these cancers remains poor with 5-year survival rates lower than 15%. Recently, immunotherapy has increasingly gained attention as a novel treatment strategy for advanced esophageal cancer.Recent success of immunotherapy in treating other solid tumors has shed light on the utility of these approaches for esophageal cancers. Here, the authors focus on antibody-based, adoptive-cell-therapy-based, and vaccine-based immunotherapies, and briefly address their rationale, clinical data, and implications.Immunotherapy is now established to be a key treatment modality that can improve the outcomes of many cancer patients and appears to be ushering in a new era in cancer treatment. Checkpoint inhibitor drugs have shown preliminary favorable results in esophageal cancer treatment. Adoptive cell therapy and vaccine studies have also shown some promise in various clinical studies. Future endeavors will need to focus on identifying patients who are likely to benefit from immunotherapy, monitoring and managing immune responses and designing optimal combination strategies where immunotherapy agents are combined with other traditional treatment modalities. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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