Cancer cell plasticity during tumor progression, metastasis and response to therapy

A Pérez-González, K Bévant, C Blanpain - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Cell plasticity represents the ability of cells to be reprogrammed and to change their fate and
identity, enabling homeostasis restoration and tissue regeneration following damage. Cell …

Myeloid-derived suppressor cells in cancer and cancer therapy

SA Lasser, FG Ozbay Kurt, I Arkhypov, J Utikal… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Anticancer agents continue to dominate the list of newly approved drugs, approximately half
of which are immunotherapies. This trend illustrates the considerable promise of cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Signatures of plasticity, metastasis, and immunosuppression in an atlas of human small cell lung cancer

JM Chan, Á Quintanal-Villalonga, VR Gao, Y **e… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is an aggressive malignancy that includes subtypes defined
by differential expression of ASCL1, NEUROD1, and POU2F3 (SCLC-A,-N, and-P …

Concepts of extracellular matrix remodelling in tumour progression and metastasis

J Winkler, A Abisoye-Ogunniyan, KJ Metcalf… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Tissues are dynamically shaped by bidirectional communication between resident cells and
the extracellular matrix (ECM) through cell-matrix interactions and ECM remodelling …

EMT, MET, plasticity, and tumor metastasis

B Bakir, AM Chiarella, JR Pitarresi, AK Rustgi - Trends in cell biology, 2020 - cell.com
Cancer cell identity and plasticity are required in transition states, such as epithelial–
mesenchymal transition (EMT) and mesenchymal–epithelial transition (MET), in primary …

Metastatic heterogeneity of breast cancer: Molecular mechanism and potential therapeutic targets

Y Liang, H Zhang, X Song, Q Yang - Seminars in cancer biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Breast cancer is one of the most common malignancies among women throughout the world
and is the major cause of most cancer-related deaths. Several explanations account for the …

E-cadherin is required for metastasis in multiple models of breast cancer

V Padmanaban, I Krol, Y Suhail, BM Szczerba, N Aceto… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Metastasis is the major driver of death in patients with cancer. Invasion of surrounding
tissues and metastasis have been proposed to initiate following loss of the intercellular …

Myeloid-derived suppressor cells as a therapeutic target for cancer

AMK Law, F Valdes-Mora, D Gallego-Ortega - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
The emergence of immunotherapy has been an astounding breakthrough in cancer
treatments. In particular, immune checkpoint inhibitors, targeting PD-1 and CTLA-4, have …

The lung microenvironment: an important regulator of tumour growth and metastasis

NK Altorki, GJ Markowitz, D Gao, JL Port… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Lung cancer is a major global health problem, as it is the leading cause of cancer-related
deaths worldwide. Major advances in the identification of key mutational alterations have led …

Targeting macrophages: therapeutic approaches in cancer

L Cassetta, JW Pollard - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2018 - nature.com
Infiltration of macrophages in solid tumours is associated with poor prognosis and correlates
with chemotherapy resistance in most cancers. In mouse models of cancer, macrophages …