Optimizing immunotherapy for gastrointestinal tract cancers: clinical progress and perspectives
摘要
Harnessing the immune system through PD-1/PD-L1 blockade has revolutionized cancer treatment. However, the efficacy of anti-PD-1/PD-L1 monotherapy remains limited in most gastrointestinal tract cancers, spurring dedicated efforts to enhance immunotherapeutic outcomes for these malignancies. This review discusses pivotal clinical evidence to highlight recent advances, ongoing challenges, and strategic countermeasures regarding immunotherapy for gastrointestinal tract cancers. Key focus areas include immunotherapy-centric approaches for subtypes with strong endogenous antitumor immunity, chemo-immunotherapy combinations for gastroesophageal cancers showing intermediate immunotherapy sensitivity, and rationally designed combination strategies to overcome immunotherapy resistance in poorly immunogenic and immunosuppressive phenotypes.