Progress of ICIs combination therapy in MSS colorectal cancer

Ning Chengong, Sun Yanbo, Sun Feng

Electronic Journal of Metabolism and Nutrition of Cancer ›› 2023, Vol. 10 ›› Issue (2) : 277-282.

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Electronic Journal of Metabolism and Nutrition of Cancer ›› 2023, Vol. 10 ›› Issue (2) : 277-282.

Progress of ICIs combination therapy in MSS colorectal cancer

  • Ning Chengong, Sun Yanbo, Sun Feng
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Colorectal cancer is the most common malignant tumor of digestive system ranking the third in incidence and the second in mortality which poses a serious threat to the survival and quality of life of patients. Immune checkpoint inhibitors have become an important component of the first -line and late -line treatment regimens for MSI -H/ dMMR colorectal cancer. However MSI-H/ dMMR colorectal cancer accounts for only 4% ~ 5% of all metastatic colorectal cancers and for MSS / pMMR colorectal cancer patients due to tumor heterogeneity and complex immunologically heterogeneous tumor microenvironment immune checkpoint inhibitors alone often cannot overcome these factors and have low response rate or secondary drug resistance so the use of single ICIs is basically ineffective. At present combination therapy strategies such as anti-PD-1 and CTLA-4 ICIs combined with radiotherapy ICIs combined with MEK inhibitor and VEGF inhibitor ICIs combined with oncolytic virus double immunotherapy combined with targeted therapy are adopted to improve the response rate of MSS / pMMR colorectal cancer patients. Although the above -mentioned combination therapy strategy has achieved good short-term efficacy and has great prospects in the treatment of mCRC patients most of them are single - arm small - sample exploratory studies and the data are not completely stable and consistent. The safety and effectiveness need to be verified by more large-sample prospective clinical trials and also need to be confirmed and confirmed by phase Ⅲ clinical studies. This article aims to review the progress of ICIs combination therapy for MSS colorectal cancer.

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Microsatellite stable colorectal cancer / Immunotherapy / Combination therapy

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Ning Chengong, Sun Yanbo, Sun Feng. Progress of ICIs combination therapy in MSS colorectal cancer[J]. Electronic Journal of Metabolism and Nutrition of Cancer. 2023, 10(2): 277-282
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