Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy

Rationale and evidence to combine radiation therapy and immunotherapy for cancer treatment

• Review

Dan Ishihara, Laurentiu Pop, Tsuguhide Takeshima, Puneeth Iyengar, Raquibul Hannan

Selective effect of cytokine-induced killer cells on survival of patients with early-stage melanoma

• Original Article

Hong Li, Lan Huang, Linbo Liu, Ximei Wang, Zhen Zhang, Dongli Yue, Wei He, Kun Fu, Xueli Guo, Jianmin Huang, Xuan Zhao, Yu Zhu, Liping Wang, Wenjie Dong, Yan Yan, Li Xu, Ming Gao, Shuangning Yang, Yi Zhang

A polymorphism in the promoter region of PD-L1 serves as a binding-site for SP1 and is associated with PD-L1 overexpression and increased occurrence of gastric cancer

• Original Article

Li-Hua Tao, Xin-Ru Zhou, Fu-Chao Li, Qi Chen, Fan-Yi Meng, Yong Mao, Rui Li, Dong Hua, Hong-Jian Zhang, Wei-Peng Wang, Wei-Chang Chen

Targeting of the WT191–138 fragment to human dendritic cells improves leukemia-specific T-cell responses providing an alternative approach to WT1-based vaccination

• Original Article

Nergui Dagvadorj, Anne Deuretzbacher, Daniela Weisenberger, Elke Baumeister, Johannes Trebing, Isabell Lang, Carolin Köchel, Markus Kapp, Kerstin Kapp, Andreas Beilhack, Thomas Hünig, Hermann Einsele, Harald Wajant, Götz Ulrich Grigoleit

Preventive DNA vaccination against CEA-expressing tumors with anti-idiotypic scFv6.C4 DNA in CEA-expressing transgenic mice

• Original Article

Priscila M. A. Denapoli, Bianca F. Zanetti, Adara A. dos Santos, Jane Z. de Moraes, Sang W. Han

Prognostic significance of the lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio and the tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte to tumor-associated macrophage ratio in patients with stage T3N0M0 esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

• Original Article

Yingming Zhu, Minghuan Li, Cong Bo, Xuemei Liu, Jianbo Zhang, Zhenxiang Li, Fen Zhao, Li Kong, Jinming Yu

Histone deacetylase inhibitors deplete myeloid-derived suppressor cells induced by 4T1 mammary tumors in vivo and in vitro

• Original Article

Hai-Fang Wang, Fen Ning, Zong-Cai Liu, Long Wu, Zi-Qian Li, Yi-Fei Qi, Ge Zhang, Hong-Sheng Wang, Shao-Hui Cai, Jun Du

Characterization of the first fully human anti-TEM1 scFv in models of solid tumor imaging and immunotoxin-based therapy

• Original Article

Xiaopeng Yuan, Mingjuan Yang, Xiang Chen, Xuhua Zhang, Shrey Sukhadia, Najia Musolino, Huijing Bao, Tingtao Chen, Chen Xu, Qirui Wang, Stephen Santoro, Daniel Ricklin, Jia Hu, Ruihe Lin, Wei Yang, Zhijun Li, Weijun Qin, Aizhi Zhao

Immune modulation associated with vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) blockade in patients with glioblastoma

• Original Article

Alissa A. Thomas, Jan L. Fisher, Thomas H. Hampton, Brock C. Christensen, Gregory J. Tsongalis, Gilbert J. Rahme, Chery A. Whipple, Sandra E. Steel, Melissa C. Davis, Arti B. Gaur, Lionel D. Lewis, Marc S. Ernstoff, Camilo E. Fadul

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Bio-HMGB1 from breast cancer contributes to M-MDSC differentiation from bone marrow progenitor cells and facilitates conversion of monocytes into MDSC-like cells

• Original Article

Zhaoliang Su, Ping Ni, Peng She, Yueqin Liu, Seidu A. Richard, Wenlin Xu, Haitao Zhu, Jia Wang

T cell receptor gene recombinations in human tumor specimen exome files: detection of T cell receptor-β VDJ recombinations associates with a favorable oncologic outcome for bladder cancer

• Original Article

Mohammad D. Samy, Wei Lue Tong, John M. Yavorski, Wade J. Sexton, George Blanck

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