From bench to bed: the tumor immune microenvironment and current immunotherapeutic strategies for hepatocellular carcinoma.

Abstract:

:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) ranks the most common primary liver malignancy and the third leading cause of tumor-related mortality worldwide. Unfortunately, despite advances in HCC treatment, less than 40% of HCC patients are eligible for potentially curative therapies. Recently, cancer immunotherapy has emerged as one of the most promising approaches for cancer treatment. It has been proven therapeutically effective in many types of solid tumors, such as non-small cell lung cancer and melanoma. As an inflammation-associated tumor, it's well-evidenced that the immunosuppressive microenvironment of HCC can promote immune tolerance and evasion by various mechanisms. Triggering more vigorous HCC-specific immune response represents a novel strategy for its management. Pre-clinical and clinical investigations have revealed that various immunotherapies might extend current options for needed HCC treatment. In this review, we provide the recent progress on HCC immunology from both basic and clinical perspectives, and discuss potential advances and challenges of immunotherapy in HCC.

journal_name

J Exp Clin Cancer Res

authors

Fu Y,Liu S,Zeng S,Shen H

doi

10.1186/s13046-019-1396-4

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-09-09 00:00:00

pages

396

issue

1

eissn

0392-9078

issn

1756-9966

pii

10.1186/s13046-019-1396-4

journal_volume

38

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