Current and Future Immunotherapy-Based Treatments for Oesophageal Cancers.

ABSTRACT: Oesophageal cancer is a disease that causes significant morbidity and mortality worldwide, and the prognosis of this condition has hardly improved in the past few years. Standard treatment includes a combination of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery; however, only a proportion of patients go on to treatment intended to cure the disease due to the late presentation of this disease. New treatment options are of utmost importance, and immunotherapy is a new option that has the potential to transform the landscape of this disease. This treatment is developed to act on the changes within the immune system caused by cancer, including checkpoint inhibitors, which have recently shown great promise in the treatment of this disease and have recently been included in the adjuvant treatment of oes

SUBMITTER: To N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9265112 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature