Advances in Oncology in US and Japan: Focusing on Cancer and Infectious Diseases

Hiroto Nakano; Takuto Miyamoto; Yelena Y Janjigian; Sohtaro Mine; Hiroaki Mitsuya; Naoto T Ueno; Elad Sharon; Shunsuke Sakai; William C Timmer; Shuichiro Nakabo; Tomoko Ikeuchi; Saori Fujiwara; Minori Kinjo; Tadashi Inuzuka; Hayato Kume; Keisuke Shirai; Norihiro Yamaguchi; Kazuaki Takabe; Naoko Takebe

doi:10.14740/wjon1422

Advances in Oncology in US and Japan: Focusing on Cancer and Infectious Diseases

World J Oncol. 2021 Dec;12(6):183-194. doi: 10.14740/wjon1422. Epub 2021 Dec 13.

Authors

Hiroto Nakano¹, Takuto Miyamoto^{2

3}, Yelena Y Janjigian⁴, Sohtaro Mine⁵, Hiroaki Mitsuya^{6

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8}, Naoto T Ueno⁹, Elad Sharon¹⁰, Shunsuke Sakai¹¹, William C Timmer¹², Shuichiro Nakabo¹³, Tomoko Ikeuchi¹⁴, Saori Fujiwara¹⁵, Minori Kinjo¹⁶, Tadashi Inuzuka¹⁷, Hayato Kume¹⁸, Keisuke Shirai¹⁹, Norihiro Yamaguchi²⁰, Kazuaki Takabe^{21

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26}, Naoko Takebe²⁷

Affiliations

¹ Translational Genetics and Genomics Unit, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
² Washington, D.C. Office, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED), District of Columbia, USA.
³ Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
⁴ Gastrointestinal Oncology Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA.
⁵ Medical Virology Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
⁶ Experimental Retrovirology Section, HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch, National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
⁷ Department of Refractory Viral Infections, National Center for Global Health and Medicine Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
⁸ Department of Clinical Sciences, Kumamoto University Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan.
⁹ Department of Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
¹⁰ Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
¹¹ T Lymphocyte Biology Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
¹² Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program, National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA.
¹³ Systemic Autoimmunity Branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
¹⁴ Oral Immunology and Inflammation Section, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
¹⁵ Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
¹⁶ Office of Research and Standards, Office of Generic Drugs, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA.
¹⁷ Liver Diseases Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
¹⁸ Embassy of Japan in the USA.
¹⁹ Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA.
²⁰ Laboratory of Systems Cancer Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA.
²¹ Breast Surgery, Department of Surgical Oncology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA.
²² Department of Surgery, University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA.
²³ Department of Surgery, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata 951-8510, Japan.
²⁴ Department of Breast Surgery and Oncology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo 160-8402, Japan.
²⁵ Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama 236-0004, Japan.
²⁶ Department of Breast Surgery, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan.
²⁷ Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Abstract

This is a review article based on the international symposium report of the "US-Japan Conference on Advances in Oncology: Cancer and Infectious Diseases" held online on June 25, 2021, which provided an update on the association between oncology and infectious disease research from cutting-edge basic science to high-impact clinical trials.

Keywords: Career development; Clinical trials; CoRe Partnership; Immunotherapy; Infectious diseases; Oncogenesis; Oncology; Translational research.

Publication types

Review

Grants and funding

P30 CA008748/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States