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Recent FDA approval of anti-PD-1 antibody pembrolizumab as a site-agnostic therapy for mismatch repair (MMR)–deficient solid tumours has highlighted the importance of CD8+ T cell responses and the potential of immunotherapy, even… Click to show full abstract
Recent FDA approval of anti-PD-1 antibody pembrolizumab as a site-agnostic therapy for mismatch repair (MMR)–deficient solid tumours has highlighted the importance of CD8+ T cell responses and the potential of immunotherapy, even in tumour entities that are traditionally considered poor candidates for immune-based therapies, such as pancreatic carcinoma.1 Clearly, the old dogma of immunologically cold pancreatic carcinoma has to be refined. It has been known for long that higher levels of intratumoural CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) correlate with better survival of patients with pancreatic carcinoma.2 3 However, in most pancreatic carcinomas, endogenous CD8+ T cells are relatively sparse.4 Moreover, intratumoural macrophages, myeloid-derived suppressor cells and regulatory T cells (Tregs) dominate even the earliest …
Journal Title: Gut
Year Published: 2018
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