Seizing the fate of lymph nodes in immunotherapy : To preserve or not?

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Lymph node dissection has been a long-standing diagnostic and therapeutic strategy for metastatic cancers. However, questions over myriad related complications and survival outcomes are continuously debated. Immunotherapy, particularly neoadjuvant immunotherapy, has revolutionized the conventional paradigm of cancer treatment, yet has benefited only a fraction of patients. Emerging evidence has unveiled the role of lymph nodes as pivotal responders to immunotherapy, whose absence may contribute to drastic impairment in treatment efficacy, again posing challenges over excessive lymph node dissection. Hence, centering around this theme, we concentrate on the mechanisms of immune activation in lymph nodes and provide an overview of minimally invasive lymph node metastasis diagnosis, current best practices for activating lymph nodes, and the prognostic outcomes of omitting lymph node dissection. In particular, we discuss the potential for future comprehensive cancer treatment with effective activation of immunotherapy driven by lymph node preservation and highlight the challenges ahead to achieve this goal.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:588

Enthalten in:

Cancer letters - 588(2024) vom: 28. Apr., Seite 216740

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Xu, Zhen-Yu [VerfasserIn]
Li, Zi-Zhan [VerfasserIn]
Cao, Lei-Ming [VerfasserIn]
Zhong, Nian-Nian [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Xuan-Hao [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Guang-Rui [VerfasserIn]
Xiao, Yao [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Bing [VerfasserIn]
Bu, Lin-Lin [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Immunotherapy
Journal Article
Lymph node
Lymph node metastasis
Omission of lymph node dissection
Review

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Date Completed 09.04.2024

Date Revised 09.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.canlet.2024.216740

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369131460