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Cancers, Volume 10, Issue 6

June 2018 - 56 articles

Cover Story: Until today, older patients with high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) have poor outcomes when treated with conventional treatment strategies. Response after a first-line treatment with hypomethylating agents (HMA) occurs in less than 50% of these patients. In our review, we focus on upcoming new treatment strategies in the field of HMA-based combination strategies. One of the current most promising approaches is preventing HMA resistance by using checkpoint inhibitors. We are sure that these new treatment options will guide the future of clinical research. Recent data also suggest a potential renaissance of intensive treatment strategies, such as therapies based on CPX-351. View this paper.
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Articles (56)

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
6,802 Views
15 Pages

14 June 2018

Patients with B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (B-NHL) who fail to respond to first-line treatment regimens or develop resistance, exhibit poor prognosis. This signifies the need to develop alternative treatment strategies. CD19-chimeric antigen r...

  • Review
  • Open Access
71 Citations
15,580 Views
39 Pages

Designer Oncolytic Adenovirus: Coming of Age

  • Alexander T. Baker,
  • Carmen Aguirre-Hernández,
  • Gunnel Halldén and
  • Alan L. Parker

14 June 2018

The licensing of talimogene laherparepvec (T-Vec) represented a landmark moment for oncolytic virotherapy, since it provided unequivocal evidence for the long-touted potential of genetically modified replicating viruses as anti-cancer agents. Whilst...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
73 Citations
11,141 Views
6 Pages

Antiviral Drugs for EBV

  • Joseph S. Pagano,
  • Christopher B. Whitehurst and
  • Graciela Andrei

13 June 2018

Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) infects up to 95% of the adult human population, with primary infection typically occurring during childhood and usually asymptomatic. However, EBV can cause infectious mononucleosis in approximately 35–50% cases...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,275 Views
10 Pages

Recombinant TSR1 of ADAMTS5 Suppresses Melanoma Growth in Mice via an Anti-angiogenic Mechanism

  • Bhuvanasundar Renganathan,
  • Vinoth Durairaj,
  • Dogan Can Kirman,
  • Paa Kow A. Esubonteng,
  • Swee Kim Ang and
  • Ruowen Ge

11 June 2018

Inhibiting tumor angiogenesis is a well-established approach for anticancer therapeutic development. A Disintegrin-like and Metalloproteinase with ThromboSpondin Motifs 5 (ADAMTS5) is a secreted matrix metalloproteinase in the ADAMTS family that also...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,408 Views
14 Pages

11 June 2018

Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is typically refractory to conventional treatments and associated with poor prognosis. While therapeutic advances over the past several years have improved patient outcomes, the observed benefits have been modest at best, hi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
173 Citations
16,035 Views
21 Pages

11 June 2018

Transforming Growth Factor beta (TGF-β) is a pleiotropic cytokine produced in large amounts within cancer microenvironments that will ultimately promote neoplastic progression, notably by suppressing the host’s T-cell immunosurveillance. This effect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,645 Views
15 Pages

Ensuring the Safety and Security of Frozen Lung Cancer Tissue Collections through the Encapsulation of Dried DNA

  • Kevin Washetine,
  • Mehdi Kara-Borni,
  • Simon Heeke,
  • Christelle Bonnetaud,
  • Jean-Marc Félix,
  • Lydia Ribeyre,
  • Coraline Bence,
  • Marius Ilié,
  • Olivier Bordone and
  • Marine Pedro
  • + 14 authors

11 June 2018

Collected specimens for research purposes may or may not be made available depending on their scarcity and/or on the project needs. Their protection against degradation or in the event of an incident is pivotal. Duplication and storage on a different...

  • Review
  • Open Access
60 Citations
10,287 Views
28 Pages

Endogenous Control Mechanisms of FAK and PYK2 and Their Relevance to Cancer Development

  • Rayan Naser,
  • Abdullah Aldehaiman,
  • Escarlet Díaz-Galicia and
  • Stefan T. Arold

11 June 2018

Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) and its close paralogue, proline-rich tyrosine kinase 2 (PYK2), are key regulators of aggressive spreading and metastasis of cancer cells. While targeted small-molecule inhibitors of FAK and PYK2 have been found to have pr...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,403 Views
10 Pages

WIP-YAP/TAZ as A New Pro-Oncogenic Pathway in Glioma

  • Sergio Rivas,
  • Inés M. Antón and
  • Francisco Wandosell

9 June 2018

Wild-type p53 (wtp53) is described as a tumour suppressor gene, and mutations in p53 occur in many human cancers. Indeed, in high-grade malignant glioma, numerous molecular genetics studies have established central roles of RTK-PI3K-PTEN and ARF-MDM2...

  • Review
  • Open Access
66 Citations
20,425 Views
22 Pages

8 June 2018

Cancer research has been heavily geared towards genomic events in the development and progression of cancer. In contrast, metabolic regulation, such as aberrant metabolism in cancer, is poorly understood. Alteration in cellular metabolism was once re...

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