Current Trends in Cancer Immunotherapy

• Main Authors: Ivan Y. Filin, Valeriya V. Solovyeva, Kristina V. Kitaeva, Catrin S. Rutland, Albert A. Rizvanov
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020-12-01
• Series: Biomedicines
• Subjects: immunotherapy; cancer; immune checkpoint inhibitors; cytokine therapy; vaccines; oncolytic viruses
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9059/8/12/621

The search for an effective drug to treat oncological diseases, which have become the main scourge of mankind, has generated a lot of methods for studying this affliction. It has also become a serious challenge for scientists and clinicians who have needed to invent new ways of overcoming the problems encountered during treatments, and have also made important discoveries pertaining to fundamental issues relating to the emergence and development of malignant neoplasms. Understanding the basics of the human immune system interactions with tumor cells has enabled new cancer immunotherapy strategies. The initial successes observed in immunotherapy led to new methods of treating cancer and attracted the attention of the scientific and clinical communities due to the prospects of these methods. Nevertheless, there are still many problems that prevent immunotherapy from calling itself an effective drug in the fight against malignant neoplasms. This review examines the current state of affairs for each immunotherapy method, the effectiveness of the strategies under study, as well as possible ways to overcome the problems that have arisen and increase their therapeutic potentials.