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Bladder Cancer, Loss of Y Chromosome, and New Opportunities for Immunotherapy.
Advances in therapy - 1 Mar 2024
Mankan Arun K, Mankan Nagender, de Las Heras Begona, Ramkissoon Shakti H, Bodriagova Olga, Vidal Laura, Grande Enrique, Saini Kamal S
Abstract excerpt
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) have emerged as an important therapeutic approach for patients with cancers including bladder cancer (BC). This commentary describes a recent study that demonstrated that the loss of Y chromosome (LOY) and/or loss of specific genes on Y chromosome confers an aggressive phenotype to BC because of T cell dysfunction resulting in CD8+T cell exhaustion. Loss of expression of Y...
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