Ma Maoguang, Lin Bo, Wang Mingdian, Liang Xiaoli, Su Lei, Okose Okenwa, Lv Weiming, Li Jie
Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou, China.
State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China and Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center Guangzhou, China.
Am J Transl Res. 2020 Mar 15;12(3):974-988. eCollection 2020.
Anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC) is one of the worst human malignancies, with an associated median survival of only 5 months. It is resistant to conventional thyroid cancer therapies, including radioiodine and thyroid-stimulating hormone suppression. Cancer immunotherapy has emerged over the past few decades as a transformative approach to treating a wide variety of cancers. However, immunotherapy for ATC is still in the experimental stage. This review will cover several strategies of immunotherapy and discuss the possible application of these strategies in the treatment of ATC (such as targeted therapy for tumor-associated macrophages, cancer vaccines, adoptive immunotherapy, monoclonal antibodies and immune checkpoint blockade) with the hope of improving the prognosis of ATC in the future.
间变性甲状腺癌(ATC)是最严重的人类恶性肿瘤之一,其相关的中位生存期仅为5个月。它对包括放射性碘和促甲状腺激素抑制在内的传统甲状腺癌治疗具有抗性。在过去几十年中,癌症免疫疗法已成为治疗多种癌症的变革性方法。然而,ATC的免疫疗法仍处于实验阶段。本综述将涵盖几种免疫疗法策略,并讨论这些策略在ATC治疗中的可能应用(如针对肿瘤相关巨噬细胞的靶向治疗、癌症疫苗、过继性免疫疗法、单克隆抗体和免疫检查点阻断),以期未来改善ATC的预后。