Mazza Camille, Escudier Bernard, Albiges Laurence
Department of Medical Oncology, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France.
Département de médecine Oncologique, Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France.
Ther Adv Med Oncol. 2017 Mar;9(3):171-181. doi: 10.1177/1758834016679942. Epub 2016 Dec 11.
Similar to melanoma, renal cell carcinoma (RCC) has been historically considered as an immunogenic tumor, with interleukin 2 (IL-2) and interferon alpha (IFN-α) being the first approved treatments in the 1990s. However, these therapies were effective in only 10-20% of cases and were not well tolerated. Recently, new insights on the interaction between the immune system and tumor have identified the programmed death-1/programmed death-ligand-1 (PD-1/PD-L1) pathway to be a key player in evading host immune responses. The strategy of immune checkpoint blockade is to reduce inhibitory signaling and restore the patient's natural tumor-specific T-cell-mediated immune responses. Nivolumab is the first PD-1 inhibitor to have gained approval for the treatment of patients with metastatic melanoma, squamous and nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), Hodgkin disease and recently RCC. In this review, we discuss results from studies of nivolumab in RCC, clinical experience with this agent, and its future development.
与黑色素瘤相似,肾细胞癌(RCC)在历史上一直被视为一种免疫原性肿瘤,白细胞介素2(IL-2)和干扰素α(IFN-α)是20世纪90年代首批获批的治疗药物。然而,这些疗法仅在10%-20%的病例中有效,且耐受性不佳。最近,关于免疫系统与肿瘤相互作用的新见解表明,程序性死亡1/程序性死亡配体1(PD-1/PD-L1)通路是逃避宿主免疫反应的关键因素。免疫检查点阻断策略是减少抑制性信号传导并恢复患者天然的肿瘤特异性T细胞介导的免疫反应。纳武单抗是首个获批用于治疗转移性黑色素瘤、鳞状和非鳞状非小细胞肺癌(NSCLC)、霍奇金病以及最近用于治疗肾细胞癌患者的PD-1抑制剂。在本综述中,我们讨论了纳武单抗治疗肾细胞癌的研究结果、使用该药物的临床经验及其未来发展。