Neoantigens in immunotherapy and personalized vaccines: Implications for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

ABSTRACT: The recent success of immunotherapies has demonstrated the potency of tumor-specific immune cells in mediating tumor rejection and generating durable tumor immunity. Our understanding of the scientific basis of these responses results from the confluence of a better comprehension of the cancer immunoediting process and the revolution in next generation sequencing of cancer genomes. Recent evidence suggests that T cell specificity for cancer cell expressed mutant proteins - termed neoantigens - is an important component of immune mediated tumor rejection. Improved neoantigen prediction algorithms have made it possible to predict and monitor immune responses to checkpoint inhibitors and adoptively transferred autologous lymphocytes and have enabled the development of tumor-specific therapeut

SUBMITTER: Zolkind P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5423853 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature