{"title":"Mixing it up: boosting responses with immunotherapy combinations.","authors":"Hiroki Komatsuda, Edward S Sim, Ravindra Uppaluri","doi":"10.1016/j.trecan.2025.04.013","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Whether combination neoadjuvant immunotherapy can enhance response in patients with head and neck cancer remains unclear. Recently, Li et al. demonstrated improved responses with neoadjuvant anti-PD-1+CTLA-4 or anti-PD-1+LAG-3 compared with anti-PD-1 monotherapy. These combination strategies act via different mechanisms with distinct biomarkers of response, highlighting the potential for personalized neoadjuvant immunotherapy approaches.</p>","PeriodicalId":23336,"journal":{"name":"Trends in cancer","volume":" ","pages":"496-498"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Trends in cancer","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trecan.2025.04.013","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/5/6 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ONCOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Whether combination neoadjuvant immunotherapy can enhance response in patients with head and neck cancer remains unclear. Recently, Li et al. demonstrated improved responses with neoadjuvant anti-PD-1+CTLA-4 or anti-PD-1+LAG-3 compared with anti-PD-1 monotherapy. These combination strategies act via different mechanisms with distinct biomarkers of response, highlighting the potential for personalized neoadjuvant immunotherapy approaches.
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