OLD Category: Oncology

November 13, 2023 / eLife

  • Sarkari A, Korenfeld S, Deniz K, Ladner K, Wong P, Padmanabhan S, Vogel RI, Sherer LA, Courtemanche N, Steer C, Wainer-Katsir K, Lou E
Disruption of intercellular communication within tumors is emerging as a novel potential strategy for cancer-directed therapy. Tumor-Treating Fields (TTFields) therapy is a treatment modality that has itself emerged over the…
November 1, 2023 / Nature

  • Caronni N, La Terza F, Vittoria FM, Barbiera G, Mezzanzanica L, Cuzzola V, Barresi S, Pellegatta M, Canevazzi P, Dunsmore G, Leonardi C, Montaldo E, Lusito E, Dugnani E, Citro A, Ng MSF, Schiavo Lena M, Drago D, Andolfo A, Brugiapaglia S, Scagliotti A, Mortellaro A, Corbo V, Liu Z, Mondino A, Dellabona P, Piemonti L, Taveggia C, Doglioni C, Cappello P, Novelli F, Iannacone M, Ng LG, Ginhoux F, Crippa S, Falconi M, Bonini C, Naldini L, Genua M, Ostuni R
Inflammatory and immunomodulatory signals co-exist in the pancreatic tumour microenvironment, leading to dysregulated repair and cytotoxic responses. Tumour-associated macrophages (TAMs) have key roles in PDAC2, but their diversity has prevented…
November 1, 2023 / Neuro-oncol adv

  • Moffet JJD, Oluwaseun E Fatunla, Lutz Freytag, Jurgen Kriel, Jordan J Jones, Samuel J Roberts-Thomson, Anna Pavenko, David K Scoville, Liang Zhang, Yan Liang, Andrew P Morokoff, James R Whittle, Saskia Freytag, Sarah A Best
Background: High-grade gliomas (HGG) are aggressive primary brain cancers with poor response to standard regimens, driven by immense heterogeneity. In isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) wild-type high-grade glioma (glioblastoma, GBM), increased intra-tumoral…
October 28, 2023 / Pharmacol Res

  • Zhang S, Li N, Wang F, Liu H, Zhang Y, Xiao J, Qiu W, Zhang C, Fan X, Qiu M, Li M, Tang H, Fan S, Wang J, Luo H, Li X, Lin J, Huang Y, Liang L.
Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT) has become the standard treatment for patients with locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC). However, 20-40% of patients with LARC show little to no response to nCRT. Thus,…
October 25, 2023 / Mol Cancer Res

  • Caputo A, Vipparthi K, Bazeley P, Downs-Kelly E, McIntire P, Duckworth LA, Ni Y, Hu B, Keri RA, Karaayvaz M
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in females, affecting one in every eight women and accounting for the majority of cancer-related deaths in women worldwide. Germline mutations in the…
October 24, 2023 / Gastric Cancer

  • Grosser B, Heyer CM, Austgen J, Sipos E, Reitsam NG, Hauser A, VanSchoiack A, Kroeppler D, Vlasenko D, Probst A, Novotny A, Weichert W, Keller G, Schlesner M, Märkl B
Background: Recently, we presented Stroma AReactive Invasion Front Areas (SARIFA) as a new histomorphologic negative prognostic biomarker in gastric cancer. It is defined as direct contact between tumor cells and…
October 23, 2023 / Cancer Immunol Res

  • Donati B, Reggiani F, Torricelli F, Santandrea G, Rossi T, Bisagni A, Gasparini E, Neri A, Cortesi L, Ferrari G, Bisagni G, Ragazzi M, Ciarrocchi A
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) alone or combined with target therapies represents the standard of care for localized triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). However, only a fraction of patients have a response, necessitating…
October 21, 2023 / Acta Pharm Sin B

  • Setayesh T, Ying Hu, Farzam Vaziri, Xin Chen, Jinping Lai, Dongguang Wei, Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan
This study examines inhibiting galectin 1 (Gal1) as a treatment option for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Gal1 has immunosuppressive and cancer-promoting roles. Our data showed that Gal1 was highly expressed in…
October 19, 2023 / Cancers (Basel)

  • Schneider F, Kaczorowski A, Jurcic C, Kirchner M, Schwab C, Schütz V, Görtz M, Zschäbitz S, Jäger D, Stenzinger A, Hohenfellner M, Duensing S, Duensing A
Simple Summary: Clear cell renal cell carcinoma is characterized by a high degree of genomic intratumoral heterogeneity. The extent of spatial and functional heterogeneity, however, is much less understood. In…
October 16, 2023 / Anal Bioanal Chem

  • Dunne J, Griner J, Romeo M, Macdonald J, Krieg C, Lim M, Yagnik G, Rothschild KJ, Drake RR, Mehta AS, Angel PM
The integration of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry imaging (MALDI-MSI) with single cell spatial omics methods allows for a comprehensive investigation of single cell spatial information and matrisomal N-glycan and…
October 13, 2023 / Lab Invest

  • Qiu C, Lin Q, Ji S, Han C, Yang Q
In this study, we aimed to explore immune markers predicting locoregional recurrence/distant metastasis (R/M) for patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) post-surgical intervention by using a novel high-throughput spatial…
October 9, 2023 / Cancers (Basel)

  • Lozar T, Laklouk I, Golfinos AE, Gavrielatou N, Xu J, Flynn C, Keske A, Yu M, Bruce JY, Wang W, Grasic Kuhar C, Bailey HH, Harari PM, Dinh HQ, Rimm DL, Hu R, Lambert PF, Fitzpatrick MB
Simple Summary: Between 15 and 35% of head and neck cancer patients respond to immune check-point blockade therapy (ICB), and some may experience potentially life-threatening adverse events. Biomarkers that can…