Cancer stem cells: advances in knowledge and implications for cancer therapy

X Chu, W Tian, J Ning, G Xiao, Y Zhou… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
Cancer stem cells (CSCs), a small subset of cells in tumors that are characterized by self-
renewal and continuous proliferation, lead to tumorigenesis, metastasis, and maintain tumor …

Targeting cancer stem cell pathways for cancer therapy

L Yang, P Shi, G Zhao, J Xu, W Peng, J Zhang… - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Since cancer stem cells (CSCs) were first identified in leukemia in 1994, they have been
considered promising therapeutic targets for cancer therapy. These cells have self-renewal …

[HTML][HTML] A proteogenomic portrait of lung squamous cell carcinoma

S Satpathy, K Krug, PMJ Beltran, SR Savage, F Petralia… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Lung squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) remains a leading cause of cancer death with few
therapeutic options. We characterized the proteogenomic landscape of LSCC, providing a …

Cancer cell CD44 mediates macrophage/monocyte-driven regulation of head and neck cancer stem cells

KE Gomez, FL Wu, SB Keysar, JJ Morton, B Miller… - Cancer research, 2020 - AACR
Tumor-associated macrophages (TAM) in the tumor microenvironment (TME) cooperate with
cancer stem cells (CSC) to maintain stemness. We recently identified cluster of …

Live tumor imaging shows macrophage induction and TMEM-mediated enrichment of cancer stem cells during metastatic dissemination

VP Sharma, B Tang, Y Wang, CL Duran… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) play an important role during metastasis, but the dynamic
behavior and induction mechanisms of CSCs are not well understood. Here, we employ …

Knockdown of long non-coding RNA NEAT1 inhibits glioma cell migration and invasion via modulation of SOX2 targeted by miR-132

KE Zhou, C Zhang, H Yao, X Zhang, Y Zhou, Y Che… - Molecular cancer, 2018 - Springer
Background A better understanding of the molecular mechanism involving lncRNA-miRNA-
mRNA network underlying glioma genesis is beneficial to the treatment of glioma. This study …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor microenvironment in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: Functions and regulatory mechanisms

G Wang, M Zhang, M Cheng, X Wang, K Li, J Chen… - Cancer Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
The tumor microenvironment has been recently reported to play a pivotal role in sustaining
tumor cells survival and protecting them from immunotherapy and chemotherapy-induced …

Radiotherapy targeting cancer stem cells “awakens” them to induce tumour relapse and metastasis in oral cancer

Y Liu, M Yang, J Luo, H Zhou - International journal of oral science, 2020 - nature.com
Radiotherapy is one of the most common treatments for oral cancer. However, in the clinic,
recurrence and metastasis of oral cancer occur after radiotherapy, and the underlying …

[HTML][HTML] Integrative analysis identified CD38 as a key node that correlates highly with immunophenotype, chemoradiotherapy resistance, and prognosis of head and …

Z He, C Yue, X Chen, X Li, L Zhang, S Tan, X Yi… - Journal of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Head and neck cancer (HNC) is mainly treated by surgery, radiotherapy, and adjuvant
chemotherapy; however, the prognosis of some patients with HNC is poor because of …

Cancer plasticity: the role of mRNA translation

LJ Lee, D Papadopoli, M Jewer, S Del Rincon… - Trends in cancer, 2021 - cell.com
Tumor progression is associated with dedifferentiated histopathologies concomitant with
cancer cell survival within a changing, and often hostile, tumor microenvironment. These …