{"title":"Immune microenvironment and progress in immunotherapy of cholangiocarcinoma","authors":"Xinyu Shao","doi":"10.1016/j.clicom.2023.11.002","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a group of malignant digestive system tumors with a poor overall prognosis. Late diagnosis and limited treatment are the main problems of CCA. Immunotherapy is a promising method to improve the prognosis, but the immunosuppression of CCA tumor microenvironment hinders the development and implementation of immunotherapy. Therefore, a full understanding of the complex components of CCA and its tumor immune microenvironment (TiME) can better understand the pathogenesis and drug resistance mechanism of CCA and contribute to the discovery of new immunotherapy targets. This article reviews the TiME related research on CCA, comprehensively discusses the components of the immune microenvironment of cholangiocarcinoma, and introduces the research progress of immunotherapy and immune combination therapy for CCA.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100269,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Immunology Communications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277261342300029X/pdfft?md5=96a4cfb37b3b9075b3279e4257bd499c&pid=1-s2.0-S277261342300029X-main.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Clinical Immunology Communications","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277261342300029X","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a group of malignant digestive system tumors with a poor overall prognosis. Late diagnosis and limited treatment are the main problems of CCA. Immunotherapy is a promising method to improve the prognosis, but the immunosuppression of CCA tumor microenvironment hinders the development and implementation of immunotherapy. Therefore, a full understanding of the complex components of CCA and its tumor immune microenvironment (TiME) can better understand the pathogenesis and drug resistance mechanism of CCA and contribute to the discovery of new immunotherapy targets. This article reviews the TiME related research on CCA, comprehensively discusses the components of the immune microenvironment of cholangiocarcinoma, and introduces the research progress of immunotherapy and immune combination therapy for CCA.