Therapeutic challenges and current immunomodulatory strategies in targeting the immunosuppressive pancreatic tumor microenvironment

CK Looi, FFL Chung, CO Leong, SF Wong… - … & Clinical Cancer …, 2019 - Springer
… of TME in pancreatic cancer that may contribute to … perspectives of combination therapies
that (1) promote T cell priming through tumor associated antigen presentation; (2) inhibit tumor

Pancreatic cancer

JD Mizrahi, R Surana, JW Valle, RT Shroff - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
… 10% in the USA, and it is becoming an increasingly common cause of cancer mortality. Risk
factors for developing pancreatic cancer include family history, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and …

Pancreatic cancer evolution and heterogeneity: integrating omics and clinical data

AA Connor, S Gallinger - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
… study of pancreatic cancer extends beyond the scope of this Review and also encompasses
circulating tumour markers and circulating cells 7,8 as well as other pancreatic cancer types …

Pancreatic cancer associated fibroblasts (CAF): under-explored target for pancreatic cancer treatment

J Norton, D Foster, M Chinta, A Titan, M Longaker - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
… contributes greatly to the challenges of treating pancreatic cancer; it has been … growth factors
and cytokines such as CCL2, PDGF, hepatocyte growth factor, and fibroblast growth factor (…

[HTML][HTML] Tumor microenvironment in chemoresistance, metastasis and immunotherapy of pancreatic cancer

S Wang, Y Li, C Xing, C Ding, H Zhang… - … journal of cancer …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
growth factors (VEGF) can attract TAMs to the TME, and TAMs support the proliferation of
pancreatic cancer cells by secreting a series of growth … of pancreatic cancer is a tuff challenge, …

Current status of immunotherapies for treating pancreatic cancer

AA Wu, E Jaffee, V Lee - Current oncology reports, 2019 - Springer
growth factor receptor (HER/EGFR/ERBB) family proteins, carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA),
mesothelin, vascular endothelial growth factor … to a number of technical challenges, such as …

Cellular determinants and therapeutic implications of inflammation in pancreatic cancer

ML Stone, GL Beatty - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2019 - Elsevier
clinical trials to derail components of inflammation for clinical benefit. In addition, we address
challenges with manipulating cancer … , colony stimulating factor 1 (CSF1) is a growth factor

Cancer‐associated fibroblasts in pancreatic cancer: new subtypes, new markers, new targets

S Menezes, MH Okail, SMA Jalil… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
growth factors and cytokines, including hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), insulin-like growth
factor … lineage tracking, challenge the concept that pancreatic CAFs are predominantly …

Regulation of tumor microenvironment for pancreatic cancer therapy

X Huang, L Ding, X Liu, R Tong, J Ding, Z Qian, L Cai… - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
… Furthermore, we provide an outlook on the challenges and prospects of therapeutic … , and
hepatocyte growth factors, are involved in resistance to therapy by sustaining cancer stemness, …

The cellular origins of cancer-associated fibroblasts and their opposing contributions to pancreatic cancer growth

P Manoukian, M Bijlsma… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… In this review, we will present the different roles of stromal cells in pancreatic cancer, …
growth factor 5 (FGF5), growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF15), and hepatocyte growth factor