Cancer neuroscience: State of the field, emerging directions

F Winkler, HS Venkatesh, M Amit, T Batchelor, IE Demir… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The nervous system governs both ontogeny and oncology. Regulating organogenesis
during development, maintaining homeostasis, and promoting plasticity throughout life, the …

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 …

The neuroscience of cancer

R Mancusi, M Monje - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The nervous system regulates tissue stem and precursor populations throughout life.
Parallel to roles in development, the nervous system is emerging as a critical regulator of …

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 …

Hallmarks of cancer stemness

JJ Loh, S Ma - Cell Stem Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Cancer stemness is recognized as a key component of tumor development. Previously
coined" cancer stem cells"(CSCs) and believed to be a rare population with rigid …

Stress and cancer: mechanisms, significance and future directions

A Eckerling, I Ricon-Becker, L Sorski… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The notion that stress and cancer are interlinked has dominated lay discourse for decades.
More recent animal studies indicate that stress can substantially facilitate cancer …

Context-specific determinants of the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment in pancreatic cancer

C Falcomatà, S Bärthel, G Schneider, R Rad… - Cancer …, 2023 - aacrjournals.org
Immunotherapies have shown benefits across a range of human cancers, but not pancreatic
ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Recent evidence suggests that the immunosuppressive …

Neuronal substance P drives metastasis through an extracellular RNA–TLR7 axis

V Padmanaban, I Keller, ES Seltzer, BN Ostendorf… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Tumour innervation is associated with worse patient outcomes in multiple cancers,, which
suggests that it may regulate metastasis. Here we observed that highly metastatic mouse …

Chronic stress promotes cancer development

S Dai, Y Mo, Y Wang, B **ang, Q Liao, M Zhou… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Stress is an inevitable part of life. Chronic stress on account of reasons like adversity,
depression, anxiety, or loneliness/social isolation can endanger human health. Recent …

Cancer-derived exosomes: their role in cancer biology and biomarker development

VC Kok, CC Yu - International Journal of Nanomedicine, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Exosomes are a subset of tiny extracellular vesicles manufactured by all cells and are
present in all body fluids. They are produced actively in tumor cells, which are released and …