PMID- 31020037 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20201001 IS - 2372-7705 (Print) IS - 2372-7705 (Electronic) IS - 2372-7705 (Linking) VI - 13 DP - 2019 Jun 28 TI - Enhancing Dendritic Cell Therapy in Solid Tumors with Immunomodulating Conventional Treatment. PG - 67-81 LID - 10.1016/j.omto.2019.03.007 [doi] AB - Dendritic cells (DCs) are the most potent antigen-presenting cells and are the key initiator of tumor-specific immune responses. These characteristics are exploited by DC therapy, where DCs are ex vivo loaded with tumor-associated antigens (TAAs) and used to induce tumor-specific immune responses. Unfortunately, clinical responses remain limited to a proportion of the patients. Tumor characteristics and the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME) of the tumor are likely hampering efficacy of DC therapy. Therefore, reducing the immunosuppressive TME by combining DC therapy with other treatments could be a promising strategy. Initially, conventional cancer therapies, such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy, were thought to specifically target cancerous cells. Recent insights indicate that these therapies additionally augment tumor immunity by targeting immunosuppressive cell subsets in the TME, inducing immunogenic cell death (ICD), or blocking inhibitory molecules. Therefore, combining DC therapy with registered therapies such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or checkpoint inhibitors could be a promising treatment strategy to improve the efficacy of DC therapy. In this review, we evaluate various clinical applicable combination strategies to improve the efficacy of DC therapy. FAU - Belderbos, Robert A AU - Belderbos RA AD - Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, the Netherlands. AD - Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, the Netherlands. FAU - Aerts, Joachim G J V AU - Aerts JGJV AD - Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, the Netherlands. AD - Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, the Netherlands. FAU - Vroman, Heleen AU - Vroman H AD - Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, the Netherlands. AD - Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, the Netherlands. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20190327 PL - United States TA - Mol Ther Oncolytics JT - Molecular therapy oncolytics JID - 101666776 PMC - PMC6475716 OTO - NOTNLM OT - checkpoint inhibitors OT - chemotherapy OT - dendritic cell-based therapy OT - immunogenic cell death OT - immunotherapy OT - macrophages OT - myeloid-derived suppressor cells OT - radiotherapy OT - regulatory T cells OT - tumor microenvironment EDAT- 2019/04/26 06:00 MHDA- 2019/04/26 06:01 PMCR- 2019/03/27 CRDT- 2019/04/26 06:00 PHST- 2019/04/26 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/04/26 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/04/26 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2019/03/27 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S2372-7705(19)30037-3 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.omto.2019.03.007 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Mol Ther Oncolytics. 2019 Mar 27;13:67-81. doi: 10.1016/j.omto.2019.03.007. eCollection 2019 Jun 28.