Soft tissue sarcoma is characterized by its rarity and complexity, making it more difficult to conduct large clinical trials compared with other solid tumors. Also known as 'cold tumors,' sarcomas, especially advanced sarcomas, have poor responses to immunotherapy. Based on that, the results of two groundbreaking phase 2 clinical trials about neoadjuvant immunotherapy in patients with liposarcoma or undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma are encouraging. In this paper, we discuss the results of these clinical trials and the challenges we are facing to conduct neoadjuvant immunotherapy in sarcomas and call for further research to promote the development of it.
Keywords: Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor; Immunotherapy; Neoadjuvant; Solid tumor.
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