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Immunoengineering with biomaterials for enhanced cancer immunotherapy

Li Tang, Lixia Wei, Yuqing Xie
2018
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Cancer immunotherapy has recently shown dramatic clinical success inducing durable response in patients of a wide variety of malignancies. Further improvement of the clinical outcome with immune related cancer treatment requests more exquisite manipulation of a patient’s immune system with increased immunity against diseases while mitigating the toxicities. To meet this challenge, biomaterials applied to immunoengineering are being developed to achieve tissue- and/or cell-specific immunomodulation and thus could potentially enhance both the efficacy and safety of current cancer immunotherapies. Here, we review the recent advancement in the field of immunoengineering using biomaterials and their applications in promoting different modalities of cancer immunotherapies, with focus on cell-, antibody-, immunomodulator-, and gene-based immune related treatments and their combinations with conventional therapies. Challenges and opportunities are discussed in applying biomaterials engineering strategies in the development of future cancer immunotherapies.

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Li Tang, Lixia Wei, Yuqing Xie
2018
Reviews

Résumé

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/88995cef-d7fc-4dbc-ac92-5f7e307010c9

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Immunothérapie

vignette|Thérapie adoptive par lymphocytes T (non annotée). Les lymphocytes T spécifiques du cancer peuvent être obtenus par fragmentation et isolement des lymphocytes infiltrant la tumeur, ou par génie génétique des cellules du sang périphérique. Les cellules sont activées L' consiste à administrer des substances stimulant les défenses immunitaires du malade pour lutter contre des pathologies installées, le plus souvent des cancers, voire contre des maladies dégénératives.

Treatment of cancer

Cancer can be treated by surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormonal therapy, targeted therapy (including immunotherapy such as monoclonal antibody therapy) and synthetic lethality, most commonly as a series of separate treatments (e.g. chemotherapy before surgery). The choice of therapy depends upon the location and grade of the tumor and the stage of the disease, as well as the general state of the patient (performance status). Cancer genome sequencing helps in determining which cancer the patient exactly has for determining the best therapy for the cancer.

Système immunitaire

vignette|Un lymphocyte, principale composante du système immunitaire adaptatif des vertébrés. Le système immunitaire d'un organisme est un système biologique complexe constitué d'un ensemble coordonné d'éléments de reconnaissance et de défense qui discrimine le soi du non-soi. Ce qui est reconnu comme non-soi est détruit. Il protège l'organisme des agents pathogènes : virus, bactéries, parasites, certaines particules ou molécules « étrangères » (dont certains poisons), mais est responsable du phénomène de rejet de greffe.

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