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 …

Pancreatic cancer stroma: an update on therapeutic targeting strategies

AN Hosein, RA Brekken, A Maitra - Nature reviews Gastroenterology & …, 2020 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a leading cause of cancer-related mortality in
the Western world with limited therapeutic options and dismal long-term survival. The …

Cancer-associated fibroblasts: Origin, function, imaging, and therapeutic targeting

R Rimal, P Desai, R Daware, A Hosseinnejad… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
The tumor microenvironment (TME) is emerging as one of the primary barriers in cancer
therapy. Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAF) are a common inhabitant of the TME in several …

Mesenchymal lineage heterogeneity underlies nonredundant functions of pancreatic cancer–associated fibroblasts

EJ Helms, MW Berry, RC Chaw, CC DuFort… - Cancer …, 2022 - aacrjournals.org
Cancer-associated fibroblast (CAF) heterogeneity is increasingly appreciated, but the
origins and functions of distinct CAF subtypes remain poorly understood. The abundant and …

Distinct populations of inflammatory fibroblasts and myofibroblasts in pancreatic cancer

D Öhlund, A Handly-Santana, G Biffi, E Elyada… - Journal of Experimental …, 2017 - rupress.org
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) has one of the worst outcomes among all cancers,
with a median survival of∼ 6 mo and a 5-yr survival rate of< 8%(Siegel et al., 2016). Patients …

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: current and evolving therapies

A Adamska, A Domenichini, M Falasca - International journal of molecular …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), which constitutes 90% of pancreatic cancers, is
the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the world. Due to the broad …

CAF subpopulations: A new reservoir of stromal targets in pancreatic cancer

BA Pereira, C Vennin, M Papanicolaou, CR Chambers… - Trends in cancer, 2019 - cell.com
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are one of the most significant components in the
tumour microenvironment (TME), where they can perform several protumourigenic functions …

[HTML][HTML] Microenvironmental determinants of pancreatic cancer

E Hessmann, SM Buchholz, IE Demir… - Physiological …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) belongs to the most lethal solid tumors in
humans. A histological hallmark feature of PDAC is the pronounced tumor microenvironment …

Stromal biology and therapy in pancreatic cancer: ready for clinical translation?

A Neesse, CA Bauer, D Öhlund, M Lauth, M Buchholz… - Gut, 2019 - gut.bmj.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is notoriously aggressive and hard to treat. The
tumour microenvironment (TME) in PDA is highly dynamic and has been found to promote …

The extracellular matrix and pancreatic cancer: a complex relationship

M Weniger, KC Honselmann, AS Liss - Cancers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has an extraordinarily dense fibrotic stroma that
impedes tumor perfusion and delivery of anticancer drugs. Since the extracellular matrix …