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The "Achilles Heel" of Cancer and Its Implications for the Development of Novel Immunotherapeutic Strategies

Joshi, K; Chain, BM; Peggs, KS; Quezada, SA; (2017) The "Achilles Heel" of Cancer and Its Implications for the Development of Novel Immunotherapeutic Strategies. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine 10.1101/cshperspect.a027086. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

Over the last century, scientists have embraced the idea of mobilizing antitumor immune responses in patients with cancer. In the last decade, we have seen the rebirth of cancer immunotherapy and its validation in a series of high profile clinical trials following the discovery of several immune-regulatory receptors. Recent studies point toward the tumor mutational load and resulting neoantigen burden as being crucial to tumor cell recognition by the immune system, highlighting a potentially targetable Achilles heel in cancer. In this review, we explore the key mechanisms that underpin the recognition of cancerous cells by the immune system and discuss how we may advance immunotherapeutic strategies to target the cancer mutanome to stimulate tumor-specific immune responses, ultimately, to improve the clinical outcome for patients with cancer.

Type: Article
Title: The "Achilles Heel" of Cancer and Its Implications for the Development of Novel Immunotherapeutic Strategies
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a027086
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1101/cshperspect.a027086
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Cancer Institute
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Cancer Institute > Research Department of Haematology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Infection and Immunity
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1562258
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