[HTML][HTML] Pancreatic cancer stroma: understanding biology leads to new therapeutic strategies

AA Rucki, L Zheng - World journal of gastroenterology: WJG, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is among the deadliest cancers in the United
States and in the world. Late diagnosis, early metastasis and lack of effective therapy are …

Stromal biology and therapy in pancreatic cancer: a changing paradigm

A Neesse, H Algül, DA Tuveson, TM Gress - Gut, 2015 - gut.bmj.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) exhibits one of the poorest prognosis of all solid
tumours and poses an unsolved problem in cancer medicine. Despite the recent success of …

Targeting the cancer-stroma interaction: a potential approach for pancreatic cancer treatment

X Li, Q Ma, Q Xu, W Duan, J Lei… - Current pharmaceutical …, 2012 - ingentaconnect.com
Recent studies have demonstrated that the interaction between the cancer and the stroma,
play a key role in the development of pancreatic cancer. The desmoplasia, which consists of …

The conflicting roles of tumor stroma in pancreatic cancer and their contribution to the failure of clinical trials: a systematic review and critical appraisal

MF Bijlsma, HWM van Laarhoven - Cancer and Metastasis Reviews, 2015 - Springer
A nearly universal feature of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is an extensive
presence of activated stroma. This stroma is thought to aid in various tumor-promoting …

Pancreatic cancer microenvironment: a current dilemma

B Uzunparmak, IH Sahin - Clinical and translational medicine, 2019 - Springer
Pancreatic cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related death in the United States
and survival outcomes remain dismal despite significant advances in molecular diagnostics …

The pancreas cancer microenvironment

C Feig, A Gopinathan, A Neesse, DS Chan, N Cook… - Clinical cancer …, 2012 - AACR
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is a common and lethal malignancy resulting in
more than 250,000 deaths per year worldwide. Despite extensive efforts, cytotoxic and …

Tumor-stromal crosstalk in pancreatic cancer and tissue fibrosis

D Thomas, P Radhakrishnan - Molecular cancer, 2019 - Springer
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a devastating disease with high morbidity and
mortality worldwide. To date, limited therapeutic achievements targeting cell proliferation …

Pancreatic cancer: Stroma and its current and emerging targeted therapies

J Kota, J Hancock, J Kwon, M Korc - Cancer letters, 2017 - Elsevier
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the most lethal human malignancies
with a 5-year survival rate of 8%. Dense, fibrotic stroma associated with pancreatic tumors is …

The desmoplastic stroma of pancreatic cancer: multilayered levels of heterogeneity, clinical significance, and therapeutic opportunities

Y Masugi - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Pancreatic cancer is a highly malignant disease with treatment resistance
to standardized chemotherapies. In addition, only a small fraction of patients with pancreatic …

Pancreatic cancer stroma: friend or foe?

J Gore, M Korc - Cancer cell, 2014 - cell.com
Pancreatic cancer desmoplasia is thought to confer biological aggressiveness. In this issue
of Cancer Cell, Özdemir and colleagues and Rhim and colleagues demonstrate that …