Cited by 6,145Cancer Immunotherapy and BiomarkersImmune cells in cancerImmunotherapy and Immune Responses

Understanding the tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) for effective therapy

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Binnewies, Mikhail, Roberts, Edward W., Kersten, Kelly, Chan, Vincent, Fearon, Douglas F., Merad, Miriam, Coussens, Lisa M., Gabrilovich, Dmitry I. +10 more·2018·Nature Medicine

Abstract

The clinical successes in immunotherapy have been both astounding and at the same time unsatisfactory. Countless patients with varied tumor types have seen pronounced clinical response with immunotherapeutic intervention; however, many more patients have experienced minimal or no clinical benefit when provided the same treatment. As technology has advanced, so has the understanding of the complexity and diversity of the immune context of the tumor microenvironment and its influence on response to therapy. It has been possible to identify different subclasses of immune environment that have an influence on tumor initiation and response and therapy; by parsing the unique classes and subclasses of tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) that exist within a patient's tumor, the ability to predict and guide immunotherapeutic responsiveness will improve, and new therapeutic targets will be revealed.

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Binnewies, M., Roberts, E. W., Kersten, K., Chan, V., Fearon, D. F., Merad, M., Coussens, L. M., Gabrilovich, D. I., Ostrand-Rosenberg, S., Hedrick, C. C., Vonderheide, R. H., Pittet, M. J., Jain, R. K., Zou, W., Howcroft, T. K., Woodhouse, E. C., Weinberg, R. A., & Krummel, M. F.
Affiliations
  • University of California, San Francisco (US)
  • Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (US)
  • Oregon Health & Science University (US)
  • The Wistar Institute (US)
  • La Jolla Institute for Immunology (US)
  • Abramson Cancer Center (US)
  • Harvard University (US)
  • University of Michigan (US)
  • National Institutes of Health (US)
  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (US)
Corresponding author
  • Weinberg, Robert A.
  • Krummel, Matthew F.
Venue
Nature Medicine
Published
2018-04-23
Volume
24
Issue
5
Pages
541-550
ISSN
  • 1078-8956 (ISSN-L)
  • 1546-170X
OpenAlex
W2801309958
Cited by
6,145
References
112
Citations by year
2026: 935 · 2025: 918 · 2024: 890 · 2023: 859 · 2022: 905 · 2021: 749 · 2020: 571 · 2019: 259 · 2018: 48 · 2012: 1
FWCI
43.01
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Nature Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Institutional Repository (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (submittedVersion)
  • ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
  • National Cancer Institute (R01CA206890, R01CA211016, R01CA202987, R01CA173861, P01CA080124, R35CA197743, R01CA208205, R01CA190400, P30CA010815)
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01AI114787)
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (T32HD007470)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immune cells in cancer
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
Keywords
tumor immune microenvironment, immunotherapy response, immune contexture, predictive biomarkers, immunotherapy resistance, therapeutic target, tumor initiation
MeSH terms
Genotype, Humans, Immunotherapy, Neoplasm Metastasis, Neoplasms, Phenotype, Tumor Microenvironment

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