Immunotherapy for pancreatic cancer: A long and hopeful journey.

Abstract:

:Multiple therapeutic strategies have been developed to treat pancreatic cancer. However, the outcomes of these approaches are disappointing. Due to deeper understandings of the pivotal roles of the immune system in pancreatic cancer tumorigenesis and progression, novel therapeutic strategies based on immune cells and the tumor microenvironment are being investigated. Some of these approaches, such as checkpoint inhibitors, chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, and BiTE antibodies, have achieved exciting outcomes in preclinical and clinical trials. The current review describes the roles of immune cells and the immunosuppressive microenvironment in the development of pancreatic cancer, as well as the preclinical and clinical outcomes and benefits of recent immunotherapeutic approaches, which may help us further disclose the mechanisms of pancreatic cancer progression and the dialectical views of feasibility and effectiveness of immunotherapy in treatment of pancreatic cancer.

journal_name

Cancer Lett

journal_title

Cancer letters

authors

Xu JW,Wang L,Cheng YG,Zhang GY,Hu SY,Zhou B,Zhan HX

doi

10.1016/j.canlet.2018.03.040

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2018-07-01 00:00:00

pages

143-151

eissn

0304-3835

issn

1872-7980

pii

S0304-3835(18)30243-X

journal_volume

425

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