Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pretoria & Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Pretoria 0001, South Africa.
Nuclear Medicine Research Infrastructure (NuMeRI), Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Pretoria 0001, South Africa.
Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Apr 15;22(8):4109. doi: 10.3390/ijms22084109.
Emerging research demonstrates that co-inhibitory immune checkpoints (ICs) remain the most promising immunotherapy targets in various malignancies. Nonetheless, ICIs have offered insignificant clinical benefits in the treatment of advanced prostate cancer (PCa) especially when they are used as monotherapies. Current existing PCa treatment initially offers an improved clinical outcome and overall survival (OS), however, after a while the treatment becomes resistant leading to aggressive and uncontrolled disease associated with increased mortality and morbidity. Concurrent combination of the ICIs with radionuclides therapy that has rapidly emerged as safe and effective targeted approach for treating PCa patients may shift the paradigm of PCa treatment. Here, we provide an overview of the contextual contribution of old and new emerging inhibitory ICs in PCa, preclinical and clinical studies supporting the use of these ICs in treating PCa patients. Furthermore, we will also describe the potential of using a combinatory approach of ICIs and radionuclides therapy in treating PCa patients to enhance efficacy, durable cancer control and OS. The inhibitory ICs considered in this review are cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA4), programmed cell death 1 (PD1), V-domain immunoglobulin suppressor of T cell activation (VISTA), indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO), T cell Immunoglobulin Domain and Mucin Domain 3 (TIM-3), lymphocyte-activation gene 3 (LAG-3), T cell immunoreceptor with Ig and ITIM domains (TIGIT), B7 homolog 3 (B7-H3) and B7-H4.
新兴研究表明,共抑制性免疫检查点(ICs)仍然是各种恶性肿瘤最有前途的免疫治疗靶点。然而,免疫检查点抑制剂在治疗晚期前列腺癌(PCa)方面的临床获益甚微,尤其是作为单药治疗时。目前的 PCa 治疗方法最初可以提供改善的临床结果和总体生存(OS),但是一段时间后,治疗会产生耐药性,导致疾病变得侵袭性和不可控,从而增加死亡率和发病率。将免疫检查点抑制剂与放射性核素治疗联合使用,这种联合治疗方法已迅速成为治疗 PCa 患者的安全有效的靶向治疗方法,可能会改变 PCa 的治疗模式。在这里,我们提供了旧的和新出现的抑制性 ICs 在 PCa 中的上下文贡献概述,以及支持这些 ICs 用于治疗 PCa 患者的临床前和临床研究。此外,我们还将描述在治疗 PCa 患者时使用免疫检查点抑制剂和放射性核素治疗联合的组合方法来提高疗效、持久的癌症控制和 OS 的潜力。本综述中考虑的抑制性 ICs 包括细胞毒性 T 淋巴细胞相关抗原 4(CTLA4)、程序性细胞死亡蛋白 1(PD1)、T 细胞活化的 V 域免疫球蛋白抑制剂(VISTA)、吲哚胺 2,3-双加氧酶(IDO)、T 细胞免疫球蛋白结构域和粘蛋白结构域 3(TIM-3)、淋巴细胞激活基因 3(LAG-3)、T 细胞免疫受体与 Ig 和 ITIM 结构域(TIGIT)、B7 同源物 3(B7-H3)和 B7-H4。