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 …

Neoadjuvant therapy for pancreatic cancer

C Springfeld, CR Ferrone, MHG Katz… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Patients with localized pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) are best treated with
surgical resection of the primary tumour and systemic chemotherapy, which provides …

Hallmarks of transcriptional intratumour heterogeneity across a thousand tumours

A Gavish, M Tyler, AC Greenwald, R Hoefflin, D Simkin… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Each tumour contains diverse cellular states that underlie intratumour heterogeneity (ITH), a
central challenge of cancer therapeutics. Dozens of recent studies have begun to describe …

Cancer cell states recur across tumor types and form specific interactions with the tumor microenvironment

D Barkley, R Moncada, M Pour, DA Liberman, I Dryg… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Transcriptional heterogeneity among malignant cells of a tumor has been studied in
individual cancer types and shown to be organized into cancer cell states; however, it …

Therapeutic developments in pancreatic cancer

ZI Hu, EM O'Reilly - Nature reviews Gastroenterology & hepatology, 2024 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has a rising incidence and is one of the most
lethal human malignancies. Much is known regarding the biology and pathophysiology of …

Single-nucleus and spatial transcriptome profiling of pancreatic cancer identifies multicellular dynamics associated with neoadjuvant treatment

WL Hwang, KA Jagadeesh, JA Guo, HI Hoffman… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a highly lethal and treatment-refractory
cancer. Molecular stratification in pancreatic cancer remains rudimentary and does not yet …

Crosstalk between cancer-associated fibroblasts and immune cells in the tumor microenvironment: new findings and future perspectives

X Mao, J Xu, W Wang, C Liang, J Hua, J Liu, B Zhang… - Molecular cancer, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), a stromal cell population with cell-of-origin,
phenotypic and functional heterogeneity, are the most essential components of the tumor …

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 …

Translational advances in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma therapy

AN Hosein, SK Dougan, AJ Aguirre, A Maitra - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is an aggressive cancer that is most frequently
detected at advanced stages, limiting treatment options to systemic chemotherapy with …

Epigenetic plasticity cooperates with cell-cell interactions to direct pancreatic tumorigenesis

C Burdziak, D Alonso-Curbelo, T Walle, J Reyes… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The response to tumor-initiating inflammatory and genetic insults can vary among
morphologically indistinguishable cells, suggesting as yet uncharacterized roles for …