1.Research progress on dual blockade of TIGIT and PD-1/PD-L1 pathways in tumor im-munotherapy
Shunna WANG ; Liulu GAO ; Xiaofeng ZHENG ; Guojing XING ; Lifei WANG ; Huijuan SHAO ; Xiaohui YU ; Jiucong ZHANG
Chinese Journal of Clinical Oncology 2023;50(21):1124-1129
Programmed death-1 and programmed death-ligand 1(PD-1/PD-L1)are regulatory immune checkpoint molecules that inhibit T cell activation and,therefore,play an important role in tumor immunotherapy.In recent years,increasing numbers of targeted therapeutic agents have been developed,but single immune checkpoint blockers cannot completely inhibit tumor occurrence,and tumor escape sporadically occurs.Consequently,combination therapy of targeted drugs is considered a useful method to inhibit tumorigenesis and tumor development.T cell immunoglobulin and immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibition motif(ITIM)domain(TIGIT)is an inhibitory type 1 poliovirus receptor that has recently been a hotspot of targeted drug therapy research.It has been shown that the combination therapy of TIGIT plus PD-1/PD-L1 can reduce tumor escape and inhibit tumorigenesis more effectively.Therefore,this review summarizes and discusses the progress on the dual blockade of TIGIT and PD-1/PD-L1 pathways in tumor immunotherapy to provide a theoretical basis for tumor im-munotherapy.
2.Erratum: Analysis of Tau Protein Expression in Predicting Pathological Complete Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Different Molecular Subtypes of Breast Cancer
Chuqian LEI ; Ciqiu YANG ; Bin XIA ; Fei JI ; Yi ZHANG ; Hongfei GAO ; Qianqian XIONG ; Yufeng LIN ; Xiaosheng ZHUANG ; Liulu ZHANG ; Teng ZHU ; Minyi CHENG ; Mei YANG ; Kun WANG
Journal of Breast Cancer 2020;23(2):230-231
This corrects the article “Analysis of Tau Protein Expression in Predicting Pathological Complete Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Different Molecular Subtypes of Breast Cancer” in volume 23 on page 47.This article was initially published on the Journal of Breast Cancer with a misspelled the abbreviation in figure 3. The abbreviation ‘HP’ should be corrected as ‘HR’.
3.Analysis of Tau Protein Expression in Predicting Pathological Complete Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Different Molecular Subtypes of Breast Cancer
Chuqian LEI ; Ciqiu YANG ; Bin XIA ; Fei JI ; Yi ZHANG ; Hongfei GAO ; Qianqian XIONG ; Yufeng LIN ; Xiaosheng ZHUANG ; Liulu ZHANG ; Teng ZHU ; Minyi CHENG ; Mei YANG ; Kun WANG
Journal of Breast Cancer 2020;23(1):47-58
PURPOSE:
Tau is a microtubule-associated protein that can be found in both normal and abnormal breast cells. Whether the expression of Tau protein can predict the response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) is still unclear. In this study, we assessed the role of Tau protein expression in predicting a pathological complete response (pCR) to NACT for different subtypes of breast cancer.
METHODS:
Four hundred and sixty-eight eligible patients were retrospectively recruited in our study. The relationship between clinicopathologic factors, including Tau protein expression, and pCR in different subtypes was evaluated using logistic regression analysis. Correlation between Tau and disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) was performed using Kaplan–Meier analysis.
RESULTS:
The expression of Tau protein was negatively correlated with pCR, especially in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). No significant difference was observed in the luminal human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER2)-negative subtype and HER2-positive subtype. Patients with pCR were associated with better DFS and OS (p < 0.05). However, Tau protein expression had no association with either DFS or OS (p > 0.05).
CONCLUSION
Tau protein expression can predict pCR before NACT in TNBC, but there was no correlation between Tau expression and DFS or OS.