Pancreatic cancer: Advances and challenges

CJ Halbrook, CA Lyssiotis, MP di Magliano, A Maitra - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains one of the deadliest cancers. Significant
efforts have largely defined major genetic factors driving PDAC pathogenesis and …

Macrophage diversity in cancer revisited in the era of single-cell omics

RY Ma, A Black, BZ Qian - Trends in immunology, 2022 - cell.com
Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) have multiple potent functions in cancer and, thus,
represent important therapeutic targets. These diverse functions highlight the heterogenous …

Single-nucleus and spatial transcriptome profiling of pancreatic cancer identifies multicellular dynamics associated with neoadjuvant treatment

WL Hwang, KA Jagadeesh, JA Guo, HI Hoffman… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a highly lethal and treatment-refractory
cancer. Molecular stratification in pancreatic cancer remains rudimentary and does not yet …

[HTML][HTML] Immune checkpoint HLA-E: CD94-NKG2A mediates evasion of circulating tumor cells from NK cell surveillance

X Liu, J Song, H Zhang, X Liu, F Zuo, Y Zhao, Y Zhao… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs), shed by primary malignancies, function as" seeds" for distant
metastasis. However, it is still largely unknown how CTCs escape immune surveillance …

Hallmarks of transcriptional intratumour heterogeneity across a thousand tumours

A Gavish, M Tyler, AC Greenwald, R Hoefflin, D Simkin… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Each tumour contains diverse cellular states that underlie intratumour heterogeneity (ITH), a
central challenge of cancer therapeutics. Dozens of recent studies have begun to describe …

Tumor microenvironment in pancreatic cancer pathogenesis and therapeutic resistance

MH Sherman, GL Beatty - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) features a prominent stromal microenvironment
with remarkable cellular and spatial heterogeneity that meaningfully impacts disease …

[HTML][HTML] Tryptophan-derived microbial metabolites activate the aryl hydrocarbon receptor in tumor-associated macrophages to suppress anti-tumor immunity

K Hezaveh, RS Shinde, A Klötgen, MJ Halaby… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) is a sensor of products of tryptophan metabolism and a
potent modulator of immunity. Here, we examined the impact of AhR in tumor-associated …

Systemic immunity in cancer

KJ Hiam-Galvez, BM Allen, MH Spitzer - Nature reviews cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatment, but efficacy remains limited in most
clinical settings. Cancer is a systemic disease that induces many functional and …

T cell characteristics associated with toxicity to immune checkpoint blockade in patients with melanoma

AX Lozano, AA Chaudhuri, A Nene, A Bacchiocchi… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Severe immune-related adverse events (irAEs) occur in up to 60% of patients with
melanoma treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). However, it is unknown whether …

[HTML][HTML] Spatially confined sub-tumor microenvironments in pancreatic cancer

BT Grünwald, A Devisme, G Andrieux, F Vyas, K Aliar… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Intratumoral heterogeneity is a critical frontier in understanding how the tumor
microenvironment (TME) propels malignant progression. Here, we deconvolute the human …