Improving cancer immunotherapy using nanomedicines: progress, opportunities and challenges.

ABSTRACT: Multiple nanotherapeutics have been approved for patients with cancer, but their effects on survival have been modest and, in some examples, less than those of other approved therapies. At the same time, the clinical successes achieved with immunotherapy have revolutionized the treatment of multiple advanced-stage malignancies. However, the majority of patients do not benefit from the currently available immunotherapies and many develop immune-related adverse events. By contrast, nanomedicines can reduce - but do not eliminate - the risk of certain life-threatening toxicities. Thus, the combination of these therapeutic classes is of intense research interest. The tumour microenvironment (TME) is a major cause of the failure of both nanomedicines and immunotherapies that not only limits del

SUBMITTER: Martin JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8272676 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature