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Recent advances in breast cancer immunotherapy: The promising impact of nanomedicines

  • Nastaran Hashemzadeh
  • , Mitra Dolatkhah
  • , Khosro Adibkia
  • , Ayuob Aghanejad
  • , Mohammad Barzegar-Jalali
  • , Yadollah Omidi
  • , Jaleh Barar

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Abstract

Breast cancer (BC) is one of the prevalent cancers among women. Generally, the treatment of BC is mostly based on several prominent strategies, including chemotherapy, surgery, endocrine therapy, molecular targeted therapy, and radiation. Owing to the growing knowledge about the complexity of BC pathobiology, immunotherapy as a promising treatment modality has substantially improved the patients' care in the clinic. Immunotherapy is used to harness the patient's immune system to recognize and battle devious cancer cells. As a novel therapy approach, this emerging strategy targets the key molecular entities of tumor tissue. To achieve maximal therapeutic impacts, the dynamic interplay between cancer and immune cells needs to be fully comprehended. The key molecular machinery of solid tumors can be targeted by nanoscale immunomedicines. While discussing the potential biomarkers involved in the initiation and progression of BC, we aimed to provide comprehensive insights into the immunotherapy and articulate the recent advances in terms of the therapeutic strategies used to control this disease, including immune checkpoint inhibitors, vaccines, chimeric antigen receptor T cells therapy, and nanomedicines.
Original languageEnglish
Article number119110
JournalLife Sciences
Volume271
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 15 2021

Bibliographical note

Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Funding

This study is a part of a Ph.D. thesis (No. 129) and authors acknowledge the financial support provided by the Research Vice-Chancellor of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences and the Research Canter for Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics

Keywords

  • Breast cancer
  • Cancer targeting
  • Immunotherapy
  • Nanomedicines
  • Immunotherapy/methods
  • Breast Neoplasms/immunology
  • Humans
  • Biomarkers, Tumor/immunology
  • Cancer Vaccines/administration & dosage
  • Combined Modality Therapy/methods
  • Nanomedicine/methods

Disciplines

  • Biochemistry
  • Pharmacology, Toxicology and Environmental Health

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