Department of Oncology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Genitourinary Medical Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Eur Urol Focus. 2018 Apr;4(3):442-454. doi: 10.1016/j.euf.2017.10.001. Epub 2017 Oct 19.
CONTEXT: Immunotherapies promote anticancer responses with varying levels of success based on the tumor type. OBJECTIVE: In this narrative review article, we searched the literature regarding immunotherapies in genitourinary malignancies to define the state of the field, explore future applications of immune checkpoint inhibitors, cytokines, vaccines, and cellular therapies in urological oncology and evaluate possible strategies to improve the selection of patients who might benefit from such approaches. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION: We reviewed related literature, with a focus on recent studies about immunotherapies, predictors of response, and ongoing clinical trials. EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS: Immunotherapies based on immune checkpoint blockade are approved as first- and second-line therapies for urothelial carcinoma (UC) and second-line therapies for renal cell carcinoma with limited success in prostate cancer. Programmed death-ligand 1 is the most commonly used predictive biomarker outside of UC; however, a substantial proportion of patients with tumors negative for programmed death-ligand 1 expression benefit from checkpoint inhibition, limiting its sensitivity. A high mutational load and molecular subtypes of UC are emerging as additional potential predictors. Genomic sequencing and gene expression analysis associate alterations of genes implicated in DNA repair pathways, such as BRCA1 and BRCA2, with immune checkpoint therapies. In prostate cancer, the vaccine, sipuleucel-T, is the only Food and Drug Administration-approved immunotherapy. CONCLUSIONS: Immunotherapies are emerging as exciting new treatment options with a tolerable toxicity profile in urological cancers. Checkpoint inhibitors are effective only in a subset of patients, demanding personalized approaches that consider various clinical and molecular parameters to predict patient response. Clinical trials investigating the optimal timing, sequence, and combination of immunotherapies with standard of care and novel agents will guide therapy choices and improve patient outcome. PATIENT SUMMARY: Clinical data supports the safety and efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors alone or in combination with other therapies in urological cancers.
背景:免疫疗法根据肿瘤类型的不同,在促进抗癌反应方面取得了不同程度的成功。
目的:在这篇叙述性综述文章中,我们搜索了有关泌尿生殖系统恶性肿瘤免疫疗法的文献,以确定该领域的现状,探讨免疫检查点抑制剂、细胞因子、疫苗和细胞疗法在泌尿肿瘤学中的未来应用,并评估可能的策略,以改善可能受益于这些方法的患者的选择。
证据获取:我们回顾了相关文献,重点关注最近关于免疫疗法、反应预测因子和正在进行的临床试验的研究。
证据综合:基于免疫检查点阻断的免疫疗法被批准为尿路上皮癌 (UC) 的一线和二线治疗方法,以及肾细胞癌的二线治疗方法,但在前列腺癌中的疗效有限。程序性死亡配体 1 是 UC 以外最常用的预测生物标志物;然而,相当一部分程序性死亡配体 1 表达阴性的肿瘤患者受益于检查点抑制,限制了其敏感性。UC 的高突变负荷和分子亚型正成为潜在的预测因子。基因组测序和基因表达分析将 DNA 修复途径中涉及的基因(如 BRCA1 和 BRCA2)的改变与免疫检查点治疗相关联。在前列腺癌中,疫苗 sipuleucel-T 是唯一获得食品和药物管理局批准的免疫疗法。
结论:免疫疗法作为治疗泌尿生殖系统癌症的一种新的治疗方法,具有可耐受的毒性特征,在这些癌症中正在兴起。检查点抑制剂仅对一部分患者有效,需要个性化的方法,考虑各种临床和分子参数来预测患者的反应。正在进行的临床试验,研究免疫疗法与标准治疗和新型药物的最佳时机、顺序和组合,将指导治疗选择并改善患者预后。
患者总结:临床数据支持免疫检查点抑制剂单独或与其他疗法联合治疗在泌尿生殖系统癌症中的安全性和有效性。
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