Immunotherapeutic approaches to ovarian cancer treatment

J Immunother Cancer. 2015 Mar 24:3:7. doi: 10.1186/s40425-015-0051-7. eCollection 2015.

Abstract

Despite advances in combinatorial chemotherapy regimens and the advent of intraperitoneal chemotherapy administration, current therapeutic options for ovarian cancer patients are inadequate. Immunotherapy offers a novel and promising therapeutic strategy for treating ovarian tumors. Following the demonstration of the immunogenicity of ovarian tumors, multiple immunotherapeutic modalities have been developed. Antibody-based therapies, immune checkpoint blockade, cancer vaccines, and chimeric antigen receptor-modified T cells have demonstrated preclinical success and entered clinical testing. In this review, we discuss these promising immunotherapeutic approaches and emphasize the importance of combinatorial treatment strategies and biomarker discovery.

Keywords: ACT; Antibody; Cancer vaccine; ID8; IDO; Immune checkpoint blockade; Ovarian cancer; TAM.

Publication types

  • Review