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  1. Breast cancer (BC) is the second-leading factor of mortality for women globally and is brought on by a variety of genetic and environmental causes. The conventional treatments for this disease have limitations...

    Authors: Ying Jiang, Jiayu Liu, Lingyan Chen, Zhiwen Qian and Yan Zhang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:182
  2. HDIL-2 is approved for advanced melanoma based on its durable antitumor activity. MAGE-A3 cancer immunotherapeutic (MAGE-A3 CI) is a recombinant MAGE-A3 protein combined with an immunostimulant adjuvant system...

    Authors: Jennifer L. McQuade, Jade Homsi, Carlos A. Torres-Cabala, Roland Bassett, Rashmi Murthy Popuri, Marihella L. James, Luis M. Vence and Wen-Jen Hwu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:1274
  3. Treatment options for advanced thyroid cancer refractory to standard therapies are limited. The safety and efficacy of pembrolizumab were evaluated in patients with advanced differentiated thyroid cancer expre...

    Authors: Janice M. Mehnert, Andrea Varga, Marcia S. Brose, Rahul R. Aggarwal, Chia-Chi Lin, Amy Prawira, Filippo de Braud, Kenji Tamura, Toshihiko Doi, Sarina A. Piha-Paul, Jill Gilbert, Sanatan Saraf, Pradeep Thanigaimani, Jonathan D. Cheng and Bhumsuk Keam
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:196
  4. Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) can not only effectively kill hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) tumour cells but also release tumour antigens that can provoke an immune response. However, there is no consensus rega...

    Authors: Shunli Shen, Hong Peng, Ye Wang, Ming Xu, Manxia Lin, Xiaoyan Xie, Baogang Peng and Ming Kuang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:117
  5. Programmed cell death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) may be a useful molecule for targeted immunotherapy. Therefore, this meta-analysis aimed to investigate PD-L1 expression in breast cancer and its associations with clinic...

    Authors: Hye Min Kim, Jinae Lee and Ja Seung Koo
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:690
  6. Conjunctival malignant melanoma (CMM) is a rare malignancy and in the advanced setting there is no effective treatment. In contrast, half of cutaneous melanomas have BRAF mutations and treatment with BRAF inhi...

    Authors: A. Maleka, G. Åström, P. Byström and G. J. Ullenhag
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:634
  7. Glioma is a common malignant tumours in the central nervous system (CNS), that exhibits high morbidity, a low cure rate, and a high recurrence rate. Currently, immune cells are increasingly known to play roles...

    Authors: Qiu-Yue Zhong, Er-Xi Fan, Guang-Yong Feng, Qi-Ying Chen, Xiao-Xia Gou, Guo-Jun Yue and Gui-hai Zhang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1116
  8. Due to the significant heterogeneity of renal cell carcinoma (RCC), immune checkpoints may express differently between primary and metastatic tumor. We aimed to evaluate the differential expression of TIM-3 be...

    Authors: Xingming Zhang, Xiaoxue Yin, Haoran Zhang, Guangxi Sun, Yaojing Yang, Junru Chen, Kunpeng Shu, Jinge Zhao, Peng Zhao, Ni Chen, Jia Wang, Pengfei Shen and Hao Zeng
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:49
  9. FIGHTDIGO study showed the feasibility and acceptability of handgrip strength (HGS) measure in routine in 201 consecutive patients with digestive cancer treated with ambulatory chemotherapy. The present study ...

    Authors: Damien Botsen, Marie-Amélie Ordan, Coralie Barbe, Camille Mazza, Marine Perrier, Johanna Moreau, Mathilde Brasseur, Yohann Renard, Barbara Taillière, Florian Slimano, Eric Bertin and Olivier Bouché
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:955
  10. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-based T cell therapy is in early clinical trials to target the neuroectodermal tumor, neuroblastoma. No preclinical or clinical efficacy data are available for retinoblastoma to...

    Authors: Lena Andersch, Josefine Radke, Anika Klaus, Silke Schwiebert, Annika Winkler, Elisa Schumann, Laura Grunewald, Felix Zirngibl, Carina Flemmig, Michael C. Jensen, Claudia Rossig, Antonia Joussen, Anton Henssen, Angelika Eggert, Johannes H. Schulte and Annette Künkele
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:895
  11. To determine differentially expressed and spliced RNA transcripts in chronic lymphocytic leukemia specimens a high throughput RNA-sequencing (HTS RNA-seq) analysis was performed.

    Authors: Wei Liao, Gwen Jordaan, Phillipp Nham, Ryan T. Phan, Matteo Pelegrini and Sanjai Sharma
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:714
  12. Cancer immunotherapy with immune checkpoint blockade (CKB) is now standard of care for multiple cancers. The clinical response to CKB is associated with T cell immunity targeting cancer-induced mutations that ...

    Authors: Pooja Narang, Meixuan Chen, Amit A. Sharma, Karen S. Anderson and Melissa A. Wilson
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:200
  13. Rhabdomyosarcomas (RMSs) are the most frequent soft tissue sarcoma in children and adolescents, defined by skeletal muscle differentiation and the status of FOXO1 fusions. In pediatric malignancies, in particu...

    Authors: Giulia Bertolini, Luca Bergamaschi, Andrea Ferrari, Salvatore L. Renne, Paola Collini, Cecilia Gardelli, Marta Barisella, Giovanni Centonze, Stefano Chiaravalli, Cinzia Paolino, Massimo Milione, Maura Massimino, Michela Casanova and Patrizia Gasparini
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:652
  14. We aimed to compare intra- and extracranial responses to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in lung cancer with brain metastases (BM), and to explore tumor microenvironments of the brain and lungs focusing on...

    Authors: Ryul Kim, Bhumsuk Keam, Sehui Kim, Miso Kim, Se Hyun Kim, Jin Wook Kim, Yu Jung Kim, Tae Min Kim, Yoon Kyung Jeon, Dong-Wan Kim, Doo Hyun Chung, Jong Seok Lee and Dae Seog Heo
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:19
  15. The treatment goal for recurrent malignant gliomas centers on disease stabilization while minimizing therapy-related side effects. Metronomic dosing of cytotoxic chemotherapy has emerged as a promising option ...

    Authors: Eric T. Wong, Joshua Timmons, Amy Callahan, Lauren O’Loughlin, Bridget Giarusso and David C. Alsop
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:914
  16. Cancer cells, stem cells and cancer stem cells have for a long time played a significant role in the biomedical sciences. Though cancer therapy is more effective than it was a few years ago, the truth is that ...

    Authors: Sara S. Franco, Karolina Szczesna, Maria S. Iliou, Mohammed Al-Qahtani, Ali Mobasheri, Julianna Kobolák and András Dinnyés
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16(Suppl 2):738

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 2

  17. Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) are described as an important immune modulator in the tumor microenvironment and are associated with breast cancer (BC) outcome. The spatial analysis of TILs and TIL subty...

    Authors: Lisa König, Fabian D. Mairinger, Oliver Hoffmann, Ann-Kathrin Bittner, Kurt W. Schmid, Rainer Kimmig, Sabine Kasimir-Bauer and Agnes Bankfalvi
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:120
  18. Recent breakthroughs in targeted therapy and immunotherapy have revolutionized the treatment of lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States and worldwide. Here we provide an ov...

    Authors: Xingxiang Pu, Lin Wu, Dan Su, Weimin Mao and Bingliang Fang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:1082
  19. Pancreas ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has the most dismal prognosis among all human cancers since it is highly resistant to chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy. The anticipated consequence of all ther...

    Authors: Chunwan Lu, Dafeng Yang, Maria E. Sabbatini, Aaron H. Colby, Mark W. Grinstaff, Nicholas H. Oberlies, Cedric Pearce and Kebin Liu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:149
  20. It is frequently asked whether chemotherapy can still play a role in metastatic melanoma considering the effectiveness of the available drugs today, including antiCTLA4/antiPD1 immunotherapy and antiBRAF/antiM...

    Authors: Michele Guida, Stefania Tommasi, Sabino Strippoli, Maria Iole Natalicchio, Simona De Summa, Rosamaria Pinto, Antonio Cramarossa, Anna Albano, Salvatore Pisconti, Michele Aieta, Ruggiero Ridolfi, Amalia Azzariti, Gabriella Guida, Vito Lorusso and Giusepe Colucci
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:552
  21. Treatment with programmed cell death receptor (PD-1) and programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1) inhibitors is a promising strategy to lift tumour-induced immune response suppression. However, the current syste...

    Authors: J. Rotman, C. H. Mom, E. S. Jordanova, T. D. de Gruijl and G. G. Kenter
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:888
  22. Shb is a signaling protein downstream of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-2 and Shb deficiency has been found to restrict tumor angiogenesis. The present study was performed in order to assess metastas...

    Authors: Guangxiang Zang, Karin Gustafsson, Maria Jamalpour, JongWook Hong, Guillem Genové and Michael Welsh
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:234
  23. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, infection has emerged as a fundamental aspect of cancer causation with a growing number of pathogens recognized as oncogenic. Meanwhile, oncolytic viruses have als...

    Authors: Camille Jacqueline, Aurélie Tasiemski, Gabriele Sorci, Beata Ujvari, Fatima Maachi, Dorothée Missé, François Renaud, Paul Ewald, Frédéric Thomas and Benjamin Roche
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:257
  24. An emerging immunotherapy is infusion of tumor infiltrating Lymphocytes (TIL), with objective response rates of around 50% versus 19% for ipilimumab. As an Advanced Therapeutic Medicinal Products (ATMP), TIL i...

    Authors: Valesca P. Retèl, Lotte M. G. Steuten, Marnix H. Geukes Foppen, Janne C. Mewes, Melanie A. Lindenberg, John B. A. G. Haanen and Wim H. van Harten
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:895
  25. The development of resistance is a problem shared by both classical chemotherapy and targeted therapy. Patients may respond well at first, but relapse is inevitable for many cancer patients, despite many impro...

    Authors: Ian A. Cree and Peter Charlton
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:10
  26. Traditional therapeutics have encountered a bottleneck caused by diagnosis delay and subjective and unreliable assessment. Biomarkers can overcome this bottleneck and guide us toward personalized precision med...

    Authors: Liang Zhong, Yutong Liu, Kai Wang, Zhijing He, Zhaojian Gong, Zhili Zhao, Yaocheng Yang, Xiaofei Gao, Fangjie Li, Hanjiang Wu, Sheng Zhang and Lin Chen
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:911
  27. While combinations of immune checkpoint (ICP) inhibitors and neo-adjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) have begun testing in patients with breast cancer (BC), the effects of chemotherapy on ICP expression in circulating...

    Authors: Robert Wesolowski, Andrew Stiff, Dionisia Quiroga, Christopher McQuinn, Zaibo Li, Hiroaki Nitta, Himanshu Savardekar, Brooke Benner, Bhuvaneswari Ramaswamy, Maryam Lustberg, Rachel M. Layman, Erin Macrae, Mahmoud Kassem, Nicole Williams, Sagar Sardesai, Jeffrey VanDeusen…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:445
  28. There is a paucity of data regarding the prognostic influence of peripheral blood CD4+ T lymphopenia in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Therefore, we investigated the prognostic value of T lymphopenia in N...

    Authors: Guillaume Eberst, Dewi Vernerey, Caroline Laheurte, Aurélia Meurisse, Vincent Kaulek, Laurie Cuche, Pascale Jacoulet, Hamadi Almotlak, Jean Lahourcade, Marie Gainet-Brun, Elizabeth Fabre, Françoise Le Pimpec-Barthes, Olivier Adotevi and Virginie Westeel
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:529
  29. This study aimed to use single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) to discover marker genes in endothelial cells (ECs) and construct a prognostic model for glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) patients in combination with tradi...

    Authors: Songyun Zhao, Wei Ji, Yifan Shen, Yuansheng Fan, Hui Huang, Jin Huang, Guichuan Lai, Kemiao Yuan and Chao Cheng
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:1274
  30. Modified docetaxel, cisplatin, and 5-fluorouracil (mDCF) regimen has become a new standard for the treatment of metastatic or unresectable locally advanced recurrent squamous cell carcinoma of the anus (SCCA) ...

    Authors: Stefano Kim, Bruno Buecher, Thierry André, Marine Jary, François-Clément Bidard, François Ghiringhelli, Éric François, Julien Taieb, Denis Smith, Christelle de la Fouchardière, Jérôme Desramé, Emmanuelle Samalin, Aurélie Parzy, Nabil Baba-Hamed, Olivier Bouché, David Tougeron…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:352
  31. With more than 15,000 new cases /year in France and 2,000 deaths, cutaneous melanoma represents approximately 4% of incidental cancers and 1.2% of cancer related deaths. In locally advanced (stage III) or rese...

    Authors: Lionnel Geoffrois, Alexandre Harlé, Nassim Sahki, Aleksandra Sikanja, Florence Granel-Brocard, Alice Hervieu, Laurent Mortier, Géraldine Jeudy, Catherine Michel, Charlée Nardin, Cécile Huin-Schohn and Jean-Louis Merlin
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:554
  32. Platinum chemoresistance results in high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) disease recurrence. Recent treatment advances using checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy has not benefited platinum-resistant HGSOC. I...

    Authors: Michelle W. Wong-Brown, Andre van der Westhuizen and Nikola A. Bowden
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:100
  33. Circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) has emerged as a promising blood-based biomarker for monitoring disease status of patients with advanced cancers. The presence of ctDNA in the blood is a result of biological pro...

    Authors: Leslie Calapre, Lydia Warburton, Michael Millward and Elin S. Gray
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1109

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