Define cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) in the tumor microenvironment: new opportunities in cancer immunotherapy and advances in clinical trials

H Zhang, X Yue, Z Chen, C Liu, W Wu, N Zhang, Z Liu… - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
Despite centuries since the discovery and study of cancer, cancer is still a lethal and
intractable health issue worldwide. Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) have gained much …

Targeting CAFs to overcome anticancer therapeutic resistance

PE Saw, J Chen, E Song - Trends in cancer, 2022 - cell.com
The view of cancer as a tumor cell-centric disease is now replaced by our understanding of
the interconnection and dependency of tumor stroma. Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) …

Single-cell analysis defines a pancreatic fibroblast lineage that supports anti-tumor immunity

C Hutton, F Heider, A Blanco-Gomez, A Banyard… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Fibroblasts display extensive transcriptional heterogeneity, yet functional annotation and
characterization of their heterocellular relationships remains incomplete. Using mass …

Tumor microenvironment heterogeneity an important mediator of prostate cancer progression and therapeutic resistance

R Ge, Z Wang, L Cheng - NPJ precision oncology, 2022 - nature.com
Prostate cancer is characterized by a high degree of heterogeneity, which poses a major
challenge to precision therapy and drug development. In this review, we discuss how …

The role of cancer-associated fibroblasts in prostate cancer tumorigenesis

F Bonollo, GN Thalmann, M Kruithof-de Julio… - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Tumors strongly depend on their surrounding tumor microenvironment (TME) for growth and
progression, since stromal elements are required to generate the optimal conditions for …

Cancer-associated fibroblasts: Vital suppressors of the immune response in the tumor microenvironment

X Xiang, YR Niu, ZH Wang, LL Ye, WB Peng… - Cytokine & Growth Factor …, 2022 - Elsevier
Since the" seed and soil" hypothesis was proposed, the biological functions of the tumor
microenvironment (TME), especially its stromal components, have received increasing …

IGF-binding proteins secreted by cancer-associated fibroblasts induce context-dependent drug sensitization of lung cancer cells

LL Remsing Rix, NJ Sumi, Q Hu, B Desai, AT Bryant… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) in the tumor microenvironment are often linked to drug
resistance. Here, we found that coculture with CAFs or culture in CAF-conditioned medium …

Activated fibroblast program orchestrates tumor initiation and progression; molecular mechanisms and the associated therapeutic strategies

GJ Yoshida, A Azuma, Y Miura, A Orimo - International Journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Neoplastic epithelial cells coexist in carcinomas with various non-neoplastic stromal cells,
together creating the tumor microenvironment. There is a growing interest in the cross-talk …

[HTML][HTML] Stromal SOX2 upregulation promotes tumorigenesis through the generation of a SFRP1/2-expressing cancer-associated fibroblast population

H Kasashima, A Duran, A Martinez-Ordoñez… - Developmental cell, 2021 - cell.com
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) promote tumor malignancy, but the precise
transcriptional mechanisms regulating the acquisition of the CAF phenotype are not well …

Stromal cells in prostate cancer pathobiology: friends or foes?

F Pederzoli, M Raffo, H Pakula, F Ravera… - British Journal of …, 2023 - nature.com
The genomic, epigenetic and metabolic determinants of prostate cancer pathobiology have
been extensively studied in epithelial cancer cells. However, malignant cells constantly …