Immunologic Strategies in Pancreatic Cancer: Making Cold Tumors Hot

NA Ullman, PR Burchard, RF Dunne… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - ascopubs.org
The rising incidence and persistent dismal 5-year overall survival of pancreatic ductal
adenocarcinoma (PDAC) highlight the need for new effective systemic therapies …

Current advances and outlooks in immunotherapy for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

J Fan, MF Wang, HL Chen, D Shang, JK Das, J Song - Molecular cancer, 2020 - Springer
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is an incurable cancer resistant to traditional
treatments, although a limited number of early-stage patients can undergo radical resection …

Single-cell analysis of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma identifies a novel fibroblast subtype associated with poor prognosis but better immunotherapy response

Y Wang, Y Liang, H Xu, X Zhang, T Mao, J Cui, J Yao… - Cell discovery, 2021 - nature.com
The current pathological and molecular classification of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
(PDAC) provides limited guidance for treatment options, especially for immunotherapy …

Pancreatic cancer

J Kleeff, M Korc, M Apte, C La Vecchia… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2016 - nature.com
Pancreatic cancer is a major cause of cancer-associated mortality, with a dismal overall
prognosis that has remained virtually unchanged for many decades. Currently, prevention or …

A mathematical-descriptor of tumor-mesoscopic-structure from computed-tomography images annotates prognostic-and molecular-phenotypes of epithelial ovarian …

H Lu, M Arshad, A Thornton, G Avesani… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The five-year survival rate of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is approximately 35–40%
despite maximal treatment efforts, highlighting a need for stratification biomarkers for …

Stratification of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: combinatorial genetic, stromal, and immunologic markers

ES Knudsen, P Vail, U Balaji, H Ngo, IW Botros… - Clinical Cancer …, 2017 - AACR
Purpose: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is associated with an
immunosuppressive milieu that supports immune system evasion and disease progression …

Prognostic value of desmoplastic reaction characterisation in stage II colon cancer: prospective validation in a Phase 3 study (SACURA Trial)

H Ueno, M Ishiguro, E Nakatani, T Ishikawa… - British Journal of …, 2021 - nature.com
Background The characterisation of desmoplastic reaction (DR) has emerged as a new,
independent prognostic determinant in colorectal cancer. Herein, we report the validation of …

Fibrosis imaging: current concepts and future directions

M Baues, A Dasgupta, J Ehling, J Prakash… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2017 - Elsevier
Fibrosis plays an important role in many different pathologies. It results from tissue injury,
chronic inflammation, autoimmune reactions and genetic alterations, and it is characterized …

Prognostic significance of circulating PD-1, PD-L1, pan-BTN3As, BTN3A1 and BTLA in patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma

B Bian, D Fanale, N Dusetti, J Roque, S Pastor… - …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT PDAC is one of the most heterogeneous cancers with low chemotherapeutic
sensitivity due to a dense stroma, a weak vasculature and significant biological aggressivity …

Collagens in cancer: structural regulators and guardians of cancer progression

D De Martino, JJ Bravo-Cordero - Cancer research, 2023 - AACR
Collagen is one of the most abundant proteins in animals and a major component of the
extracellular matrix (ECM) in tissues. Besides playing a role as a structural building block of …