Pancreatic cancer: Advances and challenges

CJ Halbrook, CA Lyssiotis, MP di Magliano, A Maitra - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains one of the deadliest cancers. Significant
efforts have largely defined major genetic factors driving PDAC pathogenesis and …

Activated fibroblasts in cancer: Perspectives and challenges

G Caligiuri, DA Tuveson - Cancer cell, 2023 - cell.com
Activated fibroblasts in tumors, or cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), have become a
popular research area over the past decade. As important players in many aspects of tumor …

Biology, vulnerabilities and clinical applications of circulating tumour cells

A Ring, BD Nguyen-Sträuli, A Wicki, N Aceto - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
In recent years, exceptional technological advances have enabled the identification and
interrogation of rare circulating tumour cells (CTCs) from blood samples of patients, leading …

Tumor microenvironment in pancreatic cancer pathogenesis and therapeutic resistance

MH Sherman, GL Beatty - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) features a prominent stromal microenvironment
with remarkable cellular and spatial heterogeneity that meaningfully impacts disease …

Pancreatic cancer: pathogenesis, screening, diagnosis, and treatment

LD Wood, MI Canto, EM Jaffee, DM Simeone - Gastroenterology, 2022 - Elsevier
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a clinically challenging cancer, due to both its
late stage at diagnosis and its resistance to chemotherapy. However, recent advances in our …

Pancreatic cancer evolution and heterogeneity: integrating omics and clinical data

AA Connor, S Gallinger - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), already among the deadliest epithelial
malignancies, is rising in both incidence and contribution to overall cancer deaths. Decades …

Neoantigen quality predicts immunoediting in survivors of pancreatic cancer

M Łuksza, ZM Sethna, LA Rojas, J Lihm, B Bravi… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer immunoediting is a hallmark of cancer that predicts that lymphocytes kill more
immunogenic cancer cells to cause less immunogenic clones to dominate a population …

Applications of single-cell sequencing in cancer research: progress and perspectives

Y Lei, R Tang, J Xu, W Wang, B Zhang, J Liu… - Journal of hematology & …, 2021 - Springer
Single-cell sequencing, including genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, proteomics and
metabolomics sequencing, is a powerful tool to decipher the cellular and molecular …

The molecular biology of pancreatic adenocarcinoma: translational challenges and clinical perspectives

S Wang, Y Zheng, F Yang, L Zhu, XQ Zhu… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Pancreatic cancer is an increasingly common cause of cancer mortality with a tight
correspondence between disease mortality and incidence. Furthermore, it is usually …

Breast cancer as an example of tumour heterogeneity and tumour cell plasticity during malignant progression

F Lüönd, S Tiede, G Christofori - British journal of cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Heterogeneity within a tumour increases its ability to adapt to constantly changing
constraints, but adversely affects a patient's prognosis, therapy response and clinical …