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 …

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 …

Multimodal mapping of the tumor and peripheral blood immune landscape in human pancreatic cancer

NG Steele, ES Carpenter, SB Kemp, VR Sirihorachai… - Nature Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is characterized by an immune-suppressive tumor
microenvironment that renders it largely refractory to immunotherapy. We implemented a …

Cross-species single-cell analysis of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma reveals antigen-presenting cancer-associated fibroblasts

E Elyada, M Bolisetty, P Laise, WF Flynn, ET Courtois… - Cancer discovery, 2019 - AACR
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAF) are major players in the progression and drug
resistance of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). CAFs constitute a diverse cell …

[HTML][HTML] Dendritic cell paucity leads to dysfunctional immune surveillance in pancreatic cancer

S Hegde, VE Krisnawan, BH Herzog, C Zuo… - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Here, we utilized spontaneous models of pancreatic and lung cancer to examine how
neoantigenicity shapes tumor immunity and progression. As expected, neoantigen …

Cancer-associated fibroblasts in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

T Zhang, Y Ren, P Yang, J Wang, H Zhou - Cell Death & Disease, 2022 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a lethal cancer with a prominent extracellular
matrix (ECM) deposition and poor prognosis. High levels of ECM proteins derived from …

Regulatory T-cell depletion alters the tumor microenvironment and accelerates pancreatic carcinogenesis

Y Zhang, J Lazarus, NG Steele, W Yan, HJ Lee… - Cancer discovery, 2020 - AACR
Regulatory T cells (Treg) are abundant in human and mouse pancreatic cancer. To
understand the contribution to the immunosuppressive microenvironment, we depleted …

Broadening the impact of immunotherapy to pancreatic cancer: challenges and opportunities

VP Balachandran, GL Beatty, SK Dougan - Gastroenterology, 2019 - Elsevier
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is projected to become the second deadliest
cancer in the United States by 2025, with 5-year survival at less than 10%. In other …

Epithelial and stromal co-evolution and complicity in pancreatic cancer

SR Hingorani - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas are distinguished by their robust desmoplasia, or
fibroinflammatory response. Dominated by non-malignant cells, the mutated epithelium must …

[HTML][HTML] Accumulation of long-chain fatty acids in the tumor microenvironment drives dysfunction in intrapancreatic CD8+ T cells

T Manzo, BM Prentice, KG Anderson… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - rupress.org
CD8+ T cells are master effectors of antitumor immunity, and their presence at tumor sites
correlates with favorable outcomes. However, metabolic constraints imposed by the tumor …