The blood–brain barrier and blood–tumour barrier in brain tumours and metastases

CD Arvanitis, GB Ferraro, RK Jain - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
For a blood-borne cancer therapeutic agent to be effective, it must cross the blood vessel
wall to reach cancer cells in adequate quantities, and it must overcome the resistance …

The blood–tumour barrier in cancer biology and therapy

PS Steeg - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2021 - nature.com
The protective blood–brain barrier has a major role in ensuring normal brain function by
severely limiting and tightly controlling the ingress of substances into the brain from the …

Trastuzumab deruxtecan in HER2-positive breast cancer with brain metastases: a single-arm, phase 2 trial

R Bartsch, AS Berghoff, J Furtner, M Marhold… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Trastuzumab deruxtecan is an antibody–drug conjugate with high extracranial activity in
human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive metastatic breast cancer. We …

Fatty acid synthesis is required for breast cancer brain metastasis

GB Ferraro, A Ali, A Luengo, DP Kodack, A Deik… - Nature cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Brain metastases are refractory to therapies that control systemic disease in patients with
human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive breast cancer and the brain …

Brain metastases

AS Achrol, RC Rennert, C Anders, R Soffietti… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
An estimated 20% of all patients with cancer will develop brain metastases, with the majority
of brain metastases occurring in those with lung, breast and colorectal cancers, melanoma …

Shortwave infrared fluorescence imaging with the clinically approved near-infrared dye indocyanine green

JA Carr, D Franke, JR Caram… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Fluorescence imaging is a method of real-time molecular tracking in vivo that has enabled
many clinical technologies. Imaging in the shortwave IR (SWIR; 1,000–2,000 nm) promises …

Targeting Treg cells with GITR activation alleviates resistance to immunotherapy in murine glioblastomas

Z Amoozgar, J Kloepper, J Ren, RE Tay… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint blockers (ICBs) have failed in all phase III glioblastoma (GBM) trials.
Here, we show that regulatory T (Treg) cells play a key role in GBM resistance to ICBs in …

Trastuzumab deruxtecan in HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer patients with brain metastases: a DESTINY-Breast01 subgroup analysis

G Jerusalem, YH Park, T Yamashita, SA Hurvitz… - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
Abstract DESTINY-Breast01 (NCT03248492) evaluated trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd; DS-
8201) in patients with heavily pretreated HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer (mBC). We …

Mechanisms of enhanced drug delivery in brain metastases with focused ultrasound-induced blood–tumor barrier disruption

CD Arvanitis, V Askoxylakis, Y Guo… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Blood–brain/blood–tumor barriers (BBB and BTB) and interstitial transport may constitute
major obstacles to the transport of therapeutics in brain tumors. In this study, we examined …

[HTML][HTML] Trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer and brain metastases: exploratory final analysis of cohort 1 from …

F Montemurro, S Delaloge, CH Barrios, R Wuerstlein… - Annals of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Patients with brain metastases (BM) from human epidermal growth factor
receptor 2 (HER2)-positive breast cancer represent a difficult-to-treat population …