Immunotherapy for brain metastases and primary brain tumors.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2023

Publication Title

European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990)

Keywords

oregon; eacri; chiles

Abstract

During the V Siena Immuno-Oncology (IO) Think Tank meeting in 2021, conditions were discussed which favor immunotherapy responses in either primary or secondary brain malignancies. Core elements of these discussions have been reinforced by important publications in 2021 and 2022. In primary brain tumors (such as glioblastoma) current immunotherapies have failed to deliver meaningful clinical benefit. By contrast, brain metastases frequently respond to current immunotherapies. The main differences between both conditions seem to be related to intrinsic factors (e.g., type of driver mutations) and more importantly extrinsic factors, such as the blood brain barrier and immune suppressive microenvironment (e.g., T cell counts, functional differences in T cells, myeloid cells). Future therapeutic interventions may therefore focus on rebalancing the immune cell population in a way which enables the host to respond to current or future immunotherapies.

Clinical Institute

Cancer

Clinical Institute

Neurosciences (Brain & Spine)

Department

Neurosciences

Department

Oncology

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