{"title":"Liquid biopsy for guiding breast cancer immunotherapy.","authors":"Emanuela Fina, Elsa Vitale, Simona De Summa, Gennaro Gadaleta-Caldarola, Stefania Tommasi, Raffaella Massafra, Oronzo Brunetti, Alessandro Rizzo","doi":"10.1080/1750743X.2025.2479426","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Liquid biopsy is a laboratory test used to detect and analyze circulating tumor cells (CTCs), circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), and other tumor-derived components, in a blood sample. In the context of breast cancer (BC), liquid biopsies hold significant promise for guiding the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors and immune-based combinations, offering real-time insights into tumor dynamics, treatment response, and resistance mechanisms. This review explores the role of liquid biopsy in BC immunotherapy, focusing on its applications, benefits, issues, and current and future research directions.</p>","PeriodicalId":13328,"journal":{"name":"Immunotherapy","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Immunotherapy","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1750743X.2025.2479426","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"IMMUNOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Liquid biopsy is a laboratory test used to detect and analyze circulating tumor cells (CTCs), circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), and other tumor-derived components, in a blood sample. In the context of breast cancer (BC), liquid biopsies hold significant promise for guiding the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors and immune-based combinations, offering real-time insights into tumor dynamics, treatment response, and resistance mechanisms. This review explores the role of liquid biopsy in BC immunotherapy, focusing on its applications, benefits, issues, and current and future research directions.
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Many aspects of the immune system and mechanisms of immunomodulatory therapies remain to be elucidated in order to exploit fully the emerging opportunities. Those involved in the research and clinical applications of immunotherapy are challenged by the huge and intricate volumes of knowledge arising from this fast-evolving field. The journal Immunotherapy offers the scientific community an interdisciplinary forum, providing them with information on the most recent advances of various aspects of immunotherapies, in a concise format to aid navigation of this complex field.
Immunotherapy delivers essential information in concise, at-a-glance article formats. Key advances in the field are reported and analyzed by international experts, providing an authoritative but accessible forum for this vitally important area of research. Unsolicited article proposals are welcomed and authors are required to comply fully with the journal''s Disclosure & Conflict of Interest Policy as well as major publishing guidelines, including ICMJE and GPP3.