Abstract
The use of agents able to modulate the immune system to induce or potentiate its anti-tumour activity is not a new strategy in oncology. Immunotherapy has entered a new phase in its history, l.e. the phase of being broadly accepted as a key component of therapeutic strategies to control and cure cancer. Immune- modulation by checkpoint inhibitors have demonstrated to be capable of inducing long lasting tumour responses. There are many novel immunotherapy strategies that are currently being assessed in clinical trials. Agonists of co-stimulatory signals, adoptive cell therapies, vaccines, virotherapy and others have raised interest as therapeutic options against cancer. The development of new agents such as immune checkpoint inhibitors has achieved unprecedented efficacy results in a wide variety of tumours, dramatically changing the landscape of cancor troatmont in rocont years. Broaking tolerance by ipilimumab Has been a crucial event in the past recent years, but PD-1/PD-L1 antibodies have forever changed the landscape in oncology in 2013. Ipilimumab, nivolumab, pembrolizumab or atezolizumab are now standard of care options in several malignancies and new indications are being approved on a regular basis in different tumours. These antibodies bring immunotherapy to the forefront and indicate that immune-modulation will be a key component of therapeutic strategies from now on. In addition, many of these novel approaches are being developed both in monotherapy and as part of combinatory regimes in order to synergize their activity. The results from those studies will help to define the expanding role of immunotherapy in cancer treatment in a forthcoming future and so the true renaissance of immunotherapy has arriv
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