Multifunctional Nanocarriers-Mediated Synergistic Combination of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Cancer Immunotherapy and Interventional Oncology Therapy

Bongseo Choi, Dong Hyun Kim*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) cancer immunotherapies are becoming one of the standard therapies for cancer patients. However, ICI cancer immunotherapy's overall response rate is still moderate and even combinational ICI cancer immunotherapies are not showing significant improvement in therapeutic outcomes. Only a subset of patients respond to the therapy due to the resistance and ignorance to the ICI cancer immunotherapy. Following immune-related adverse events (irAEs) is also limiting the whole therapeutic regimen. New approaches that can increase the immunotherapeutic efficacy and reduce systemic irAEs are required. Recently, multifunctional nanocarriers, which can extend the half-life of ICIs and modulate tumor microenvironment (TME), have shown a substantial opportunity to enhance ICI cancer immunotherapies. Interventional oncology (IO), allowing simultaneous diagnosis, immunogenic locoregional therapeutic delivery, and real-time monitoring of the treatment efficacy, has advanced to demonstrate the effective conversion of TME. The use of multifunctional nanocarriers with the IO therapies amplifies the image guidance capability and immunogenic therapeutic localization for the potential combinational ICI cancer immunotherapy. Herein, emerging opportunity of multifunctional nanocarriers-mediated synergistic combination of ICI cancer immunotherapy and IO local therapy is discussed.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number2100010
JournalAdvanced NanoBiomed Research
Volume1
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2021

Funding

This review was supported by grants R01CA218659 and R01EB026207 from the National Cancer Institute and National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. This work was also supported by the Center for Translational Imaging and Mouse Histology and Phenotyping Laboratory at Northwestern University. Illustrations adopted in Figure 2, 5, 6, and 8 were created with BioRender.com.

Keywords

  • cancer immunotherapy
  • image-guided medicine
  • immune checkpoint inhibitors
  • interventional oncology
  • nanocarriers interventional oncology

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
  • Engineering (miscellaneous)
  • Medicine (miscellaneous)
  • Biomaterials

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