Will Next-Generation Immunotherapy Overcome the Intrinsic Diversity and Low Immunogenicity of Sarcomas to Improve Clinical Benefit?

Sarcomas are a rare type of a heterogeneous group of tumours arising from mesenchymal cells that form connective tissues. Surgery is the most common treatment for these tumours, but additional neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy or radiation therapies may be necessary. Unfortunately, a significant proportion of patients treated with conventional therapies will develop metastatic disease that is resistant to therapies. Currently, there is an urgent need to develop more effective and durable therapies for the treatment of sarcomas. In recent years immunotherapies have revolutionised the treatment of a variety of cancers by restoring patient anti-tumour immune responses or through the adoptive infusion of immune effectors able to kill and eliminate malignant cells. The clinicopathologic and genetic heterogeneity of sarcomas, together with the generally low burden of somatic mutations potentially generating neoantigens, are currently limited to broad application of immunotherapy for patients with sarcomas. Nevertheless, a better understanding of the microenvironmental factors hampering the efficacy of immunotherapy and the identification of new and suitable therapeutic targets may help to overcome current limitations. Moreover, the recent advances in the development of immunotherapies based on the direct exploitation or targeting of T cells and/or NK cells may offer new opportunities to improve the treatment of sarcomas, particularly those showing recurrence or resistance to standard of care treatments.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

Cancers - 12(2020), 11 vom: 16. Nov.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chew, Hui Yi [VerfasserIn]
Chan, Victor [VerfasserIn]
Simpson, Fiona [VerfasserIn]
Dolcetti, Riccardo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adoptive cell transfer
Antibodies
Cancer
Cancer vaccine
Immune checkpoint
Immunotherapy
Journal Article
Natural killer cell
Review
Sarcoma
T cell

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Date Revised 01.12.2020

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/cancers12113392

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM317748769