[HTML][HTML] Challenges and opportunities for pancreatic cancer immunotherapy

AS Bear, RH Vonderheide, MH O'Hara - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is among the most immune-resistant tumor types.
Its unique genomic landscape shaped by oncogenic drivers promotes immune suppression …

Immunomodulatory nanosystems

X Feng, W Xu, Z Li, W Song, J Ding… - Advanced science, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Immunotherapy has emerged as an effective strategy for the prevention and treatment of a
variety of diseases, including cancer, infectious diseases, inflammatory diseases, and …

The tumour microenvironment after radiotherapy: mechanisms of resistance and recurrence

HE Barker, JTE Paget, AA Khan… - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2015 - nature.com
Radiotherapy plays a central part in curing cancer. For decades, most research on
improving treatment outcomes has focused on modulating radiation-induced biological …

Inflammation and cancer: advances and new agents

SM Crusz, FR Balkwill - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2015 - nature.com
Tumour-promoting inflammation is considered one of the enabling characteristics of cancer
development. Chronic inflammatory disease increases the risk of some cancers, and strong …

[HTML][HTML] NF-kappaB: two sides of the same coin

BRB Pires, RCMC Silva, GM Ferreira, E Abdelhay - Genes, 2018 - mdpi.com
Nuclear Factor-kappa B (NF-κB) is a transcription factor family that regulates a large number
of genes that are involved in important physiological processes, including survival …

Immunoadjuvants for cancer immunotherapy: A review of recent developments

A Banstola, JH Jeong, S Yook - Acta biomaterialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Cancer immunotherapy evolved as a new treatment modality to eradicate tumor cells and
has gained in popularity after its successful clinical transition. By activating antigen …

Sufficiency of CD40 activation and immune checkpoint blockade for T cell priming and tumor immunity

AH Morrison, MS Diamond, CA Hay… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Innate immune receptors such as toll-like receptors (TLRs) provide critical molecular links
between innate cells and adaptive immune responses. Here, we studied the CD40 pathway …

Targets for improving tumor response to radiotherapy

K Mortezaee, W Parwaie, E Motevaseli… - International …, 2019 - Elsevier
Radiotherapy is one of the most common treatment modalities for controlling a wide range of
tumors. However, it has been shown that radiotherapy alone is unable to completely …

[HTML][HTML] The role of heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) in radiation-induced immunomodulation

G Multhoff, AG Pockley, TE Schmid, D Schilling - Cancer letters, 2015 - Elsevier
Despite enormous progress in radiation technologies (high precision image-guided
irradiation, proton irradiation, heavy ion irradiation) and radiotherapeutic concepts …

Radiation triggering immune response and inflammation

N Hekim, Z Cetin, Z Nikitaki, A Cort, EI Saygili - Cancer letters, 2015 - Elsevier
Radiation therapy (RT) is a well-established but still under optimization branch of Cancer
Therapy (CT). RT uses electromagnetic waves or charged particles in order to kill malignant …