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Table 1 Published clinical trials evaluating ICIs in virus-related cancers

From: Immune checkpoint inhibitors in the treatment of virus-associated cancers

Viruses

ICIs

Cancers

Response rates

Ref.

HPV

Pembrolizumab

R/M cervical cancer

17%

[12]

Nivolumab

GYN cancers

20.8%

[13]

Nivolumab

SCCA

24%

[14]

Pembrolizumab

R/M HNSCC

18%

[15]

 HPV-positive

25%

 

 HPV-negative

14%

 

Durvalumab

R/M HNSCC

16.2%

[16]

 HPV-positive

29.4%

 

 HPV-negative

10.8%

 

HBV/HCV

Nivolumab

HCV infection

11.1%

[17]

Tremelimumab

HCC

17.6%

[18]

Tremelimumab

HCC

26.3%

[19]

Nivolumab

HCC

15%-20%

[20]

 HBV/HCV-positive

14-20%

 

 HBV/HCV-negative

21-23%

 

EBV

Nivolumab

R/M NPC

20.5%

[21]

Pembrolizumab

R/M NPC

25.9%

[22]

Pembrolizumab

NK/T cell lymphoma

71.4%

[23]

Pembrolizumab

NHL

23.3%

[24]

Pembrolizumab

EBV-positive GC

100%

[25]

Nivolumab

EBV-negative GC

25%

[26]

HIV

Nivolumab

Cancer (HIV-positive)

27%-63%

[27]

Ipilimumab

   

HTLV-1

 

Adult T cell lymphoma

  

HHV-8

 

Kaposi’s sarcoma

  
  1. Abbreviations: ICIs immune checkpoint inhibitors, HPV human papillomavirus, HBV hepatitis B virus, HCV hepatitis C virus, EBV Epstein-Barr virus, HHV-8 human herpesvirus type 8, HTLV-1 human T cell lymphotropic virus type 1, R/M recurrent and/or metastatic, GYN cancers cervical, vaginal, and vulvar cancers, SCCA squamous cell carcinoma of the anal canal, HNSCC head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, HCC hepatocellular carcinoma, NPC nasopharyngeal carcinoma, GC gastric cancer, NHL non-Hodgkin lymphoma