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“The anti-correlation of PD-1 and KLRG1 expression in human tumor infiltrating CD8 T cells suggests the potential for combination therapy supra-additive benefits of anti-PD-1 and anti-KLRG1 therapies.
The study included a heavily pretreated patient population, with a median of three prior lines of therapy. Robust PD-1 receptor occupancy and circulating VEGF biomarker responses were observed across ...
The PD-1 receptor, a major immune checkpoint inhibitor whose signaling is the target of multiple blockbuster anticancer drugs, differs functionally between rodents and humans in previously unknown ...
The results of a preclinical study have identified a biological mechanism that explains why some patients don’t respond to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy for solid cancer tumors. The study, ...
A phase 3 clinical trial has shown that adding a targeted immunotherapy drug to chemotherapy dramatically improved – almost doubled – the cure rate for patients with the most common kind of breast ...
Though Pfizer Inc.’s work on a PD-1-targeting antibody has trailed far behind that of its fellow big pharmas, the company could be the first to market in treatment-naïve, high-risk non-muscle invasive ...