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FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 6, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2015.00588
Keywords
anti-tumor immunity; immunogenicity; immunotherapy; molecular dicine; oncoimmunology; patient prognosis; translational medicine
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- Fund for Scientific Research Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen) [G.0661.09, G.0728.10, G.0584.12N]
- KU Leuven [GOA/11/009]
- Inter university Attraction Poles Programme
- Belgian State, Science Policy Office
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The immunogenicity of malignant cells has recently been acknowledged as a critical determinant of efficacy in cancer therapy. Thus, besides developing direct immunostimulatory regimens, including dendritic cell-based vaccines, checkpoint-blocking therapies, and adoptive T-cell transfer, researchers have started to focus on the overall mmunobiology of neoplastic cells. It is now clear that cancer cells can succumb to some anticancer therapies by undergoing a peculiar form of cell death that is characterized by an increased immunogenic potential, owing to the emission of the so-called damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs). The emission of DAMPs and other mmunostimulatory factors by cells succumbing to immunogenic cell death (ICD) favors the establishment of a productive interface with the immune system. This results in the elicitation of tumor-targeting immune responses associated with the elimination of residual, treatment-resistant cancer cells, as well as with the establishment of immunological memory. Although ICD has been characterized with increased precision since its discovery, several questions remain to be addressed. Here, we summarize and tabulate the main molecular, immunological, preclinical, and clinical aspects of ICD, in an attempt to capture the essence of this phenomenon, and identify future challenges for this rapidly expanding field of investigation.
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