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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Semin Oncol. 2015 Jun 3;42(4):663–671. doi: 10.1053/j.seminoncol.2015.05.011

Table 1.

Strategies being considered to provoke T cell-based inflammation in the tumor microenvironment.

Goal Candidate intervention
1. Promote innate immunity/type I IFNs Intratumoral STING agonists
TLR agonists
Local radiation
Targeted IFN-α/IFN-β
2. Induce tertiary lymphoid structures Intratumoral LIGHT
3. Modulate stroma Anti-CD40
EtB receptor inhibitors
4. Inhibit immunosuppressive oncogene pathways β-catenin inhibitors
Stat3 inhibitors
5. Modulate microbiota Probiotics