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Cancers, Volume 13, Issue 8

April-2 2021 - 241 articles

Cover Story: Sivakumar, Abu-Shah et al. used high dimensional analysis to characterise T cell subsets, functional states and checkpoint expression within the tumour microenvironment of treatment-naïve pancreatic cancer patients. They found an activated regulatory T-cell population, characterised by a highly immunosuppressive state with high TIGIT, ICOS and CD39 gene expression. The exhausted CD8 T-cells had lower PD1 levels but high levels of TIGIT and Tim3, as well as the presence of a significant senescent T-cell population—this is when cells have gone down an irreversible cell cycle arrest and are no longer responsive to antigen stimuli. As a result, this means that new potential checkpoint immunotherapy avenues that target these populations should be trialled in pancreatic cancer. View this paper
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Articles (241)

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,222 Views
14 Pages

Predictors of Survival in Atypical Meningiomas

  • Michele Da Broi,
  • Paola Borrelli and
  • Torstein R. Meling

21 April 2021

Introduction: Predictors of survival and progression of disease in atypical meningiomas are less well documented in the literature compared to benign meningiomas. Higher grade meningiomas tend to recur often and one of the most critical aspects is ho...

  • Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,128 Views
16 Pages

20 April 2021

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) represents an aggressive tumor of the digestive system with still low five-year survival of less than 10%. Although there are improvements for multimodal therapy of PDAC, surgery still remains the effective way...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,920 Views
13 Pages

Intersection of DNA Repair Pathways and the Immune Landscape Identifies PD-L2 as a Prognostic Marker in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer

  • Samantha Batman,
  • Koji Matsuo,
  • Paulette Mhawech-Fauceglia,
  • Elizabeth Munro,
  • Mercedes Weisenberger,
  • Allison Allen,
  • Sonali Joshi,
  • Hiroko Machida,
  • Shinya Matsuzaki and
  • Tatjana Bozanovic
  • + 1 author

20 April 2021

Background: Targeting DNA repair and immune checkpoint pathways has been the focus of multiple clinical trials. In this study, we explore the association between DNA repair proteins, immune response markers, and clinical outcome in women with EOC. Me...

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,337 Views
17 Pages

Interplay between Metabolism Reprogramming and Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition in Cancer Stem Cells

  • Yoann Daniel,
  • Elise Lelou,
  • Caroline Aninat,
  • Anne Corlu and
  • Florian Cabillic

20 April 2021

Tumor cells display important plasticity potential, which contributes to intratumoral heterogeneity. Notably, tumor cells have the ability to retrodifferentiate toward immature states under the influence of their microenvironment. Importantly, this p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
9,383 Views
19 Pages

Towards Targeted Alpha Therapy with Actinium-225: Chelators for Mild Condition Radiolabeling and Targeting PSMA—A Proof of Concept Study

  • Falco Reissig,
  • David Bauer,
  • Kristof Zarschler,
  • Zbynek Novy,
  • Katerina Bendova,
  • Marie-Charlotte Ludik,
  • Klaus Kopka,
  • Hans-Jürgen Pietzsch,
  • Milos Petrik and
  • Constantin Mamat

20 April 2021

Currently, targeted alpha therapy is one of the most investigated topics in radiopharmaceutical cancer management. Especially, the alpha emitter 225Ac has excellent nuclear properties and is gaining increasing popularity for the treatment of various...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,414 Views
23 Pages

Profiling of Adipose and Skeletal Muscle in Human Pancreatic Cancer Cachexia Reveals Distinct Gene Profiles with Convergent Pathways

  • Ashok Narasimhan,
  • Xiaoling Zhong,
  • Ernie P. Au,
  • Eugene P. Ceppa,
  • Atilla Nakeeb,
  • Michael G. House,
  • Nicholas J. Zyromski,
  • C. Max Schmidt,
  • Katheryn N. H. Schloss and
  • Daniel E. I. Schloss
  • + 9 authors

20 April 2021

The vast majority of patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) suffer cachexia. Although cachexia results from concurrent loss of adipose and muscle tissue, most studies focus on muscle alone. Emerging data demonstrate the prognostic valu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,184 Views
21 Pages

The Role of lncRNAs in the Pathobiology and Clinical Behavior of Multiple Myeloma

  • Arantxa Carrasco-León,
  • Ane Amundarain,
  • Nahia Gómez-Echarte,
  • Felipe Prósper and
  • Xabier Agirre

20 April 2021

MM is a hematological neoplasm that is still considered an incurable disease. Besides established genetic alterations, recent studies have shown that MM pathogenesis is also characterized by epigenetic aberrations, such as the gain of de novo active...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,935 Views
11 Pages

Inter-Reader Agreement of Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Breast Cancer Detection: A Multi-Reader Retrospective Study

  • Filippo Pesapane,
  • Anna Rotili,
  • Silvia Penco,
  • Marta Montesano,
  • Giorgio Maria Agazzi,
  • Valeria Dominelli,
  • Chiara Trentin,
  • Maria Pizzamiglio and
  • Enrico Cassano

20 April 2021

Purpose: In order to evaluate the use of un-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for detecting breast cancer, we evaluated the accuracy and the agreement of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) through the inter-reader reproducibility between expert...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,563 Views
26 Pages

New Insights into YES-Associated Protein Signaling Pathways in Hematological Malignancies: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges

  • Alessandro Allegra,
  • Giovanni Pioggia,
  • Vanessa Innao,
  • Caterina Musolino and
  • Sebastiano Gangemi

20 April 2021

The Hippo/YES-associated protein (YAP) signaling pathway is a cell survival and proliferation-control system with its main activity that of regulating cell growth and organ volume. YAP operates as a transcriptional coactivator in regulating the onset...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,922 Views
12 Pages

Risk of Pharmacological or Hospital Treatment for Depression in Patients with Colorectal Cancer–Associations with Pre-Cancer Lifestyle, Comorbidity and Clinical Factors

  • Trille Kristina Kjaer,
  • Ida Rask Moustsen-Helms,
  • Vanna Albieri,
  • Signe Benzon Larsen,
  • Thea Helene Degett,
  • Anne Tjønneland,
  • Christoffer Johansen,
  • Susanne K. Kjaer,
  • Ismail Gogenur and
  • Susanne Oksbjerg Dalton

20 April 2021

We investigated the risk of depression in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients and associated risk factors. The 1324 patients with CRC and 6620 matched cancer-free participants from the Diet, Cancer and Health study were followed for up to 16 years for e...

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