The evolution and ecology of resistance in cancer therapy

R Gatenby, J Brown - Cold Spring …, 2018 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
… We propose that cancer therapy become as dynamic as the tumor system being treated.
Ideally, treatment strategies should anticipate, corral, and stay ahead of the intratumoral …

The evolution and ecology of resistance in cancer therapy

RA Gatenby, JS Brown - Cold Spring …, 2020 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
resistant cancer cells that now grow and fill the space left by the now dying sensitive cells; (2)
as the populations of sensitive cancer … view cancer therapy, evolution of therapy resistance

The ecology of cancer differentiation therapy

R Solé, G Aguadé-Gorgorió - Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
… that accounts for cancer stem cells, highlighting the role of niche specificity in CSC therapy
resistance. We show that the lessons learnt from metapopulation ecology can help guide …

Eco‐oncology: applying ecological principles to understand and manage cancer

BA Reynolds, MW Oli, MK Oli - Ecology and evolution, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… Although conventional cancer therapies have been effective in killing cancer cells, this
approach has failed to cure cancer because of the evolution of resistance, metastasis, and often …

Identifying key questions in the ecology and evolution of cancer

AM Dujon, A Aktipis, C Alix‐Panabières… - Evolutionary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… In order to design effective cancer therapies, we need to know the proportion of subpopulations
of cancer cells differing in their resistance mechanisms. For example, there are three cell …

Cancer community ecology

BP Kotler, JS Brown - Cancer Control, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
… We hypothesize that cancer cells form local ecological communities within tumors. The cancer
… then there is a kind of food-safety tradeoff between the sensitive and resistant cancer cell …

Application of evolutionary principles to cancer therapy

PM Enriquez-Navas, JW Wojtkowiak, RA Gatenby - Cancer research, 2015 - AACR
… during cancer therapy, the theory behind adaptive therapy … mechanism(s) of resistance.
Proliferation of any phenotype in an … and ecological dynamics serve as first principles in cancer

Turning ecology and evolution against cancer

KS Korolev, JB Xavier, J Gore - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2014 - nature.com
therapy-resistant clones in their heterogeneous makeup. The design of many therapeutic
In the context of cancer therapy, these results suggest that a cooperatively growing tumour …

What can ecology teach us about cancer?

I Kareva - Translational oncology, 2011 - Elsevier
… acquired therapeutic resistance because cytotoxic therapy inevitably selects for resistant
At the same time, prognosis for young cancer patients is typically more favorable, which can …

Cancer ecology and evolution: positive interactions and system vulnerability

FR Adler, DM Gordon - Current opinion in systems biology, 2019 - Elsevier
… cell types are more resistant to cancer or metastasis. It has been suggested that disturbance
creates pools of unused resources needed by invaders in ecology [25] or in cancer [28] or …