AUTHOR=Jiménez-Morales Silvia , Aranda-Uribe Ivan Sammir , Pérez-Amado Carlos Jhovani , Ramírez-Bello Julian , Hidalgo-Miranda Alfredo TITLE=Mechanisms of Immunosuppressive Tumor Evasion: Focus on Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia JOURNAL=Frontiers in Immunology VOLUME=12 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/immunology/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2021.737340 DOI=10.3389/fimmu.2021.737340 ISSN=1664-3224 ABSTRACT=

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a malignancy with high heterogeneity in its biological features and treatments. Although the overall survival (OS) of patients with ALL has recently improved considerably, owing to the application of conventional chemo-therapeutic agents, approximately 20% of the pediatric cases and 40–50% of the adult patients relapse during and after the treatment period. The potential mechanisms that cause relapse involve clonal evolution, innate and acquired chemoresistance, and the ability of ALL cells to escape the immune-suppressive tumor response. Currently, immunotherapy in combination with conventional treatment is used to enhance the immune response against tumor cells, thereby significantly improving the OS in patients with ALL. Therefore, understanding the mechanisms of immune evasion by leukemia cells could be useful for developing novel therapeutic strategies.