BRAF-inhibition and tumor immune suppression.

Oncoimmunology

Department of Microbiology and Immunology; Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth; Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center ; Lebanon, NH USA ; The Norris-Cotton Cancer Center; Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center ; Lebanon, NH USA.

Published: February 2015

As BRAF-inhibitors become standard treatment for many metastatic melanoma patients, research has begun to elucidate their impact on the tumor immune landscape. Here, we highlight our recent studies demonstrating the ability of melanoma cell-intrinsic BRAF-inhibition to selectively reduce intratumoral immunosuppressive cell populations and enhance antitumor CD8 T-cell immunity.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4404921PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/2162402X.2014.988039DOI Listing

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