Loss of p53 triggers WNT-dependent systemic inflammation to drive breast cancer metastasis

MD Wellenstein, SB Coffelt, DEM Duits… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Cancer-associated systemic inflammation is strongly linked to poor disease outcome in
patients with cancer,. For most human epithelial tumour types, high systemic neutrophil-to …

Neutrophils escort circulating tumour cells to enable cell cycle progression

BM Szczerba, F Castro-Giner, M Vetter, I Krol… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
A better understanding of the features that define the interaction between cancer cells and
immune cells is important for the development of new cancer therapies. However, focus is …

A Wnt-producing niche drives proliferative potential and progression in lung adenocarcinoma

T Tammela, FJ Sanchez-Rivera, NM Cetinbas, K Wu… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The heterogeneity of cellular states in cancer has been linked to drug resistance, cancer
progression and the presence of cancer cells with properties of normal tissue stem cells …

Melanoma-intrinsic β-catenin signalling prevents anti-tumour immunity

S Spranger, R Bao, TF Gajewski - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Melanoma treatment is being revolutionized by the development of effective
immunotherapeutic approaches,. These strategies include blockade of immune-inhibitory …

Stromal changes in the aged lung induce an emergence from melanoma dormancy

ME Fane, Y Chhabra, GM Alicea, DA Maranto… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Disseminated cancer cells from primary tumours can seed in distal tissues, but may take
several years to form overt metastases, a phenomenon that is termed tumour dormancy …

IL-1β+ macrophages fuel pathogenic inflammation in pancreatic cancer

N Caronni, F La Terza, FM Vittoria, G Barbiera… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a lethal disease with high resistance to
therapies. Inflammatory and immunomodulatory signals co-exist in the pancreatic tumour …

Neutrophils support lung colonization of metastasis-initiating breast cancer cells

SK Wculek, I Malanchi - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Despite progress in the development of drugs that efficiently target cancer cells, treatments
for metastatic tumours are often ineffective. The now well-established dependency of cancer …

Systemic dysfunction and plasticity of the immune macroenvironment in cancer models

BM Allen, KJ Hiam, CE Burnett, A Venida, R DeBarge… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Understanding of the factors governing immune responses in cancer remains incomplete,
limiting patient benefit. In this study, we used mass cytometry to define the systemic immune …

Chemotherapy response of spontaneous mammary tumors is independent of the adaptive immune system

M Ciampricotti, CS Hau, CW Doornebal, J Jonkers… - Nature medicine, 2012 - nature.com
On the basis of data published in Nature Medicine, the research groups of Zitvogel and
Kroemer have hypothesized that the adaptive immune system dictates the therapeutic …

Tumour cell heterogeneity maintained by cooperating subclones in Wnt-driven mammary cancers

AS Cleary, TL Leonard, SA Gestl, EJ Gunther - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Cancer genome sequencing studies indicate that a single breast cancer typically harbours
multiple genetically distinct subclones,,,. As carcinogenesis involves a breakdown in the cell …