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 …

Therapeutic targets and biomarkers of tumor immunotherapy: response versus non-response

DR Wang, XL Wu, YL Sun - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Cancers are highly complex diseases that are characterized by not only the overgrowth of
malignant cells but also an altered immune response. The inhibition and reprogramming of …

Therapeutic targeting of tumour myeloid cells

ST Barry, DI Gabrilovich, OJ Sansom… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Myeloid cells are pivotal within the immunosuppressive tumour microenvironment. The
accumulation of tumour-modified myeloid cells derived from monocytes or neutrophils …

Chromosomal instability as a driver of cancer progression

X Chen, AS Agustinus, J Li, M DiBona… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Chromosomal instability (CIN) refers to an increased propensity of cells to acquire structural
and numerical chromosomal abnormalities during cell division, which contributes to tumour …

MACHETE identifies interferon-encompassing chromosome 9p21. 3 deletions as mediators of immune evasion and metastasis

FM Barriga, KM Tsanov, YJ Ho, N Sohail, A Zhang… - Nature Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
The most prominent homozygous deletions in cancer affect chromosome 9p21. 3 and
eliminate CDKN2A/B tumor suppressors, disabling a cell-intrinsic barrier to tumorigenesis …

JAK: not just another kinase

RP Agashe, SM Lippman, R Kurzrock - Molecular cancer therapeutics, 2022 - AACR
The JAK/STAT axis is implicated in cancer, inflammation, and immunity. Numerous
cytokines/growth factors affect JAK/STAT signaling. JAKs (JAK1, JAK2, JAK3, and TYK 2) …

Somatic 9p24.1 alterations in HPV head and neck squamous cancer dictate immune microenvironment and anti-PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor activity

X Zhao, EEW Cohen, WN William Jr… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Somatic copy number alterations (SCNAs), generally losses containing interferons and
interferon-pathway genes, many on chromosome 9p, predict immune-cold, immune …

Nivolumab and ipilimumab in recurrent or refractory cancer of unknown primary: a phase II trial

M Pouyiourou, BN Kraft, T Wohlfromm, M Stahl… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cancer of unknown primary has a dismal prognosis, especially following failure of platinum-
based chemotherapy. 10-20% of patients have a high tumor mutational burden (TMB), which …

Late-stage metastatic melanoma emerges through a diversity of evolutionary pathways

L Spain, A Coulton, I Lobon, A Rowan, D Schnidrig… - Cancer discovery, 2023 - AACR
Understanding the evolutionary pathways to metastasis and resistance to immune-
checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) in melanoma is critical for improving outcomes. Here, we present …

Enzyme-mediated depletion of methylthioadenosine restores T cell function in MTAP-deficient tumors and reverses immunotherapy resistance

D Gjuka, E Adib, K Garrison, J Chen, Y Zhang, W Li… - Cancer cell, 2023 - cell.com
Chromosomal region 9p21 containing tumor suppressors CDKN2A/B and
methylthioadenosine phosphorylase (MTAP) is one of the most frequent genetic deletions in …