OLD Category: Oncology

July 5, 2023 / Cancer Res

  • Null JL, Kim DJ, McCann JV, Pramoonjago P, Fox JW, Zeng J, Kumar P, Edatt L, Pecot CV, Dudley AC
Cancer cell dissemination to sentinel lymph nodes associates with poor patient outcomes, particularly in breast cancer. The process by which cancer cells egress from the primary tumor upon interfacing with…
June 30, 2023 / Clin Cancer Res

  • Derry JMJ, Burns C, Frazier JP, Beirne E, Grenley M, DuFort CC, Killingbeck E, Leon M, Williams C, Gregory M, Houlton J, Clayburgh D, Swiecicki P, Huszar D, Berger A, Klinghoffer RA
Purpose: Cancer drug development is currently limited by a paradigm of preclinical evaluation that does not adequately recapitulate the complexity of the intact human tumor microenvironment (TME). To overcome this,…
June 29, 2023 / Pharmacol Res

  • Yang L, Zhang Z, Dong J, Zhang Y, Yang Z, Guo Y, Sun X, Li J, Xing P, Ying J, Zhou M
Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) is generally considered a 'homogenous' disease, with little documented inter-tumor heterogeneity in treatment guidance or prognosis evaluation. The precise identification of clinically relevant molecular subtypes remains…
June 29, 2023 / Int J Mol Sci

  • Huntington KE, Louie AD, Srinivasan PR, Schorl C, Lu S, Silverberg D, Newhouse D, Wu Z, Zhou L, Borden BA, Giles FJ, Dooner M, Carneiro BA, El-Deiry WS
Glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) is a serine/threonine kinase that has been implicated in numerous oncogenic processes. GSK-3 inhibitor elraglusib (9-ING-41) has shown promising preclinical and clinical antitumor activity across multiple…
June 23, 2023 / eLife

  • Croft W, Pearce H, Margielewska-Davies S, Lim L, Nicol SM, Zayou F, Blakeway D, Marcon F, Powell-Brett S, Mahon B, Merard R, Zuo J, Middleton G, Roberts K, Brown RM, Moss P
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma has a poor clinical outcome and responses to immunotherapy are suboptimal. Stromal fibroblasts are a dominant but heterogenous population within the tumor microenvironment and therapeutic targeting of…
June 19, 2023 / Front Immunol

  • Gunnarsdottir FB, Briem O, Lindgren AY, Källberg E, Andersen C, Grenthe R, Rosenqvist C, Millrud CR, Wallgren M, Viklund H, Bexell D, Johansson ME, Hedenfalk I, Hagerling C, Leandersson K
CD169+ resident macrophages in lymph nodes of breast cancer patients are for unknown reasons associated with a beneficial prognosis. This contrasts CD169+ macrophages present in primary breast tumors (CD169+ TAMs),…
June 16, 2023 / Clin Cancer Res

  • Pich-Bavastro C, Yerly L, Di Domizio J, Tissot-Renaud S, Gilliet M, Kuonen F
Purpose: Cemiplimab is approved for the treatment of locally advanced basal cell carcinomas (BCCs), however with mitigated results. We sought to interrogate the cellular and molecular transcriptional reprogramming underlying BCC…
June 12, 2023 / Mol Ther

  • Haas AR, Golden RJ, Litzky LA, Engels B, Zhao L, Xu F, Taraszka JA, Ramones M, Granda B, Chang WJ, Jadlowsky J, Shea KM, Runkle A, Chew A, Dowd E, Gonzalez V, Chen F, Liu X, Fang C, Jiang S, Davis MM, Sheppard NC, Zhao Y, Fraietta JA, Lacey SF, Plesa G, Melenhorst JJ, Mansfield K, Brogdon JL, Young RM, Albelda SM, June CH, Tanyi JL.
Multiple clinical studies have treated mesothelin (MSLN)-positive solid tumors by administering MSLN-directed chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells. Although these products are generally safe, efficacy is limited. Therefore, we generated…
June 4, 2023 / Virchows Arch

  • Takeuchi M, Miyoshi H, Semba Y, Yamada K, Nakashima K, Sato K, Furuta T, Moritsubo M, Ogura Y, Tanaka K, Imamoto T, Arakawa F, Kohno K, Ohshima K
Classic Hodgkin lymphoma (CHL) harbors a small number of Hodgkin-Reed-Sternberg (HRS) cells scattered among numerous lymphocytes. HRS cells are surrounded by distinct CD4+ T cells in a rosette-like manner. These…
May 31, 2023 / Cancers (Basel)

  • Wiley MB, Bauer J, Mehrotra K, Zessner-Spitzenberg J, Kolics Z, Cheng W, Castellanos K, Nash MG, Gui X, Kone L, Maker AV, Qiao G, Reddi D, Church DN, Kerr RS, Kerr DJ, Grippo PJ, Jung B
Simple Summary: The identification of markers of metastatic disease is critical to improving colorectal cancer survival rates. Activin A plays a critical role in tumor and immune cells in colorectal…
May 30, 2023 / Cells

  • Izraely S, Ben-Menachem S, Malka S, Sagi-Assif O, Bustos MA, Adir O, Meshel T, Chelladurai M, Ryu S, Ramos RI, Pasmanik-Chor M, Hoon DSB, Witz IP
Previous studies from our lab demonstrated that the crosstalk between brain-metastasizing melanoma cells and microglia, the macrophage-like cells of the central nervous system, fuels progression to metastasis. In the present…
May 18, 2023 / Cancer Med

  • Morrow E, Pennel K, Hatthakarnkul P, Leslie H, Mallon E, Andersen D, Jamieson N, McMillan D, Roseweir A, Edwards J
INTRODUCTION: Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients have the poorest clinical outcomes compared to other molecular subtypes of breast cancer. IL6/JAK/STAT3 signalling is upregulated in breast cancer; however, there is limited…