Alain Gelibter, Angela Asquino, Lidia Strigari, Ilaria Grazia Zizzari, Lucrezia Tuosto, Fabio Scirocchi, Angelica Pace, Marco Siringo, Elisa Tramontano, Serena Bianchini, Filippo Bellati, Andrea Botticelli, Donatella Paoli, Daniele Santini, Marianna Nuti, Aurelia Rughetti, Chiara Napoletano
BACKGROUND: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), administered alone or combined with chemotherapy, are the standard of care in advanced non-oncogene addicted Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC). Despite these treatments' success, most long-term survival benefit is restricted to approximately 20% of patients, highlighting the need to identify novel biomarkers to optimize treatment strategies. In several solid tumors, immune soluble factors, the activatory CD137+ Tcells, and the immunosuppressive cell subsets Tregs and MDSCs (PMN(Lox1+ )-MDSC and M-MDSCs) correlated with responses to ICIs and clinical outcomes thus becoming appealing predictive and prognostic factors...
April 3, 2024: Journal of Translational Medicine