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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
3,669 Views
18 Pages

Growing Human Hepatocellular Tumors Undergo a Global Metabolic Reprogramming

  • Fangrong Zhang,
  • Yingchao Wang,
  • Geng Chen,
  • Zhenli Li,
  • Xiaohua Xing,
  • Csilla Putz-Bankuti,
  • Rudolf E. Stauber,
  • Xiaolong Liu and
  • Tobias Madl

20 April 2021

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a common malignancy with poor prognosis, high morbidity and mortality concerning with lack of effective diagnosis and high postoperative recurrence. Similar with other cancers, HCC cancer cells have to alter their me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,699 Views
13 Pages

20 April 2021

Gemcitabine-docetaxel (G-D) combination is an effective chemotherapy for patients with advanced soft tissue and bone sarcoma, first developed with G administered on days 1 and 8, and D on day 8 every 21 days and later modified to be administered ever...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,183 Views
15 Pages

Fibroblast MMP14-Dependent Collagen Processing Is Necessary for Melanoma Growth

  • Elke Pach,
  • Jürgen Brinckmann,
  • Matthias Rübsam,
  • Maike Kümper,
  • Cornelia Mauch and
  • Paola Zigrino

20 April 2021

Skin homeostasis results from balanced synthesis and degradation of the extracellular matrix in the dermis. Deletion of the proteolytic enzyme MMP14 in dermal fibroblasts (MMP14Sf−/−) leads to a fibrotic skin phenotype with the accumulation of collag...

  • Review
  • Open Access
49 Citations
7,990 Views
29 Pages

Liquid Biopsy in Pancreatic Cancer: Are We Ready to Apply It in the Clinical Practice?

  • Victoria Heredia-Soto,
  • Nuria Rodríguez-Salas and
  • Jaime Feliu

20 April 2021

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) exhibits the poorest prognosis of all solid tumors, with a 5-year survival of less than 10%. To improve the prognosis, it is necessary to advance in the development of tools that help us in the early diagnosis,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,756 Views
13 Pages

Associations of Variability in Metabolic Parameters with Lung Cancer: A Nationwide Population-Based Study

  • In Young Cho,
  • Kyungdo Han,
  • Dong Wook Shin,
  • Mi Hee Cho,
  • Jung Eun Yoo and
  • Jong Ho Cho

20 April 2021

We investigated whether visit-to-visit variability in metabolic parameters is associated with lung cancer risk. We used nationally representative data from the Korean National Health Insurance System, and 8,011,209 lung-cancer-free subjects who under...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,897 Views
24 Pages

Down-Regulation of the Proteoglycan Decorin Fills in the Tumor-Promoting Phenotype of Ionizing Radiation-Induced Senescent Human Breast Stromal Fibroblasts

  • Eleni Mavrogonatou,
  • Adamantia Papadopoulou,
  • Asimina Fotopoulou,
  • Stathis Tsimelis,
  • Heba Bassiony,
  • Andreas M. Yiacoumettis,
  • Petros N. Panagiotou,
  • Harris Pratsinis and
  • Dimitris Kletsas

20 April 2021

Down-regulation of the small leucine-rich proteoglycan decorin in the stroma is considered a poor prognostic factor for breast cancer progression. Ionizing radiation, an established treatment for breast cancer, provokes the premature senescence of th...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,387 Views
13 Pages

20 April 2021

Natural killer (NK) cells are lymphocytes that are integral to the body’s innate immunity, resulting in a rapid immune response to stressed or infected cells in an antigen-independent manner. The innate immune system plays an important role in the re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,946 Views
11 Pages

20 April 2021

Cancer patients and their family caregivers experience various losses when patients become terminally ill, yet little is known about the grief experienced by patients and caregivers and factors that influence grief as patients approach death. Additio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,460 Views
14 Pages

Evaluation of PSA and PSA Density in a Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Directed Diagnostic Pathway for Suspected Prostate Cancer: The INNOVATE Trial

  • Hayley Pye,
  • Saurabh Singh,
  • Joseph M. Norris,
  • Lina M. Carmona Echeverria,
  • Vasilis Stavrinides,
  • Alistair Grey,
  • Eoin Dinneen,
  • Elly Pilavachi,
  • Joey Clemente and
  • Susan Heavey
  • + 27 authors

20 April 2021

Objectives: To assess the clinical outcomes of mpMRI before biopsy and evaluate the space remaining for novel biomarkers. Methods: The INNOVATE study was set up to evaluate the validity of novel fluidic biomarkers in men with suspected prostate cance...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
30 Citations
3,844 Views
11 Pages

Lag Time between Onset of First Symptom and Treatment of Retinoblastoma: An International Collaborative Study of 692 Patients from 10 Countries

  • Swathi Kaliki,
  • Xunda Ji,
  • Yihua Zou,
  • Riffat Rashid,
  • Sadia Sultana,
  • Sadik Taju Sherief,
  • Nathalie Cassoux,
  • Rosdali Y. Diaz Coronado,
  • Juan Luis Garcia Leon and
  • Arturo Manuel Zapata López
  • + 24 authors

19 April 2021

Background: The relationship between lag time and outcomes in retinoblastoma (RB) is unclear. In this study, we aimed to study the effect of lag time between onset of symptoms and diagnosis of retinoblastoma (RB) in countries based on their national-...

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