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Toll-like receptor 8: augmentation of innate immunity in platinum resistant ovarian carcinoma.


ABSTRACT: Ovarian cancer is the most deadly gynecologic cancer, with 15,000 anticipated deaths within the United States alone in 2012, and new treatment strategies are needed. Ovarian cancer tumors are known to host an immunosuppressive microenvironment. This suppression may be reversible via activation of the innate immune response. Toll-like receptor 8 activates innate immunity while simultaneously inhibiting the effects of regulatory T cells within the ovarian cancer tumors. VTX-2337 is a novel small molecule ligand of Toll-like receptor 8 and is currently the subject of a Phase II randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG)-3003 for patients with recurrent platinum-resistant ovarian cancer. We look forward to the results of this trial as support for the paradigm of process therapy in the treatment of ovarian cancer.

SUBMITTER: Brueseke TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3666910 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Toll-like receptor 8: augmentation of innate immunity in platinum resistant ovarian carcinoma.

Brueseke Taylor J TJ   Tewari Krishnansu S KS  

Clinical pharmacology : advances and applications 20130523


Ovarian cancer is the most deadly gynecologic cancer, with 15,000 anticipated deaths within the United States alone in 2012, and new treatment strategies are needed. Ovarian cancer tumors are known to host an immunosuppressive microenvironment. This suppression may be reversible via activation of the innate immune response. Toll-like receptor 8 activates innate immunity while simultaneously inhibiting the effects of regulatory T cells within the ovarian cancer tumors. VTX-2337 is a novel small m  ...[more]

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