Vafaizadeh Vida, Barekati Zeinab
Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Front Cell Dev Biol. 2020 Mar 17;8:162. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2020.00162. eCollection 2020.
The immune checkpoint blockade therapy has drastically advanced treatment of different types of cancer over the past few years. Female breast cancer is the second leading cause of death in the overall burden of cancers worldwide that is encouraging healthcare professionals to improve cancer care management. The checkpoint blockade therapies combined with novel agents become the recent focus of various clinical trials in breast cancer. However, identification of the patients who are responsive to these therapeutic strategies remained as a major issue for enhancing the efficacy of these treatments. This highlights the unmet need in discovery and development of novel biomarkers to add predictive values for prosperous personalized medicine. In this review we summarize the advances done in the era of biomarker studies and highlight their link in supporting breast cancer immunotherapy.
在过去几年中,免疫检查点阻断疗法极大地推动了不同类型癌症的治疗。女性乳腺癌是全球癌症总负担中第二大死因,这促使医疗保健专业人员改善癌症护理管理。检查点阻断疗法与新型药物联合使用已成为乳腺癌各种临床试验的近期焦点。然而,确定对这些治疗策略有反应的患者仍然是提高这些治疗效果的一个主要问题。这凸显了在发现和开发新型生物标志物以增加预测价值以实现繁荣的个性化医疗方面未满足的需求。在这篇综述中,我们总结了生物标志物研究时代所取得的进展,并强调它们在支持乳腺癌免疫治疗方面的联系。