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{"title":"Managing cancer following the World Trade Center disaster","authors":"Rachel Zeig-Owens, David J. Prezant","doi":"10.1038/s41568-024-00730-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41568-024-00730-6","url":null,"abstract":"The World Trade Center (WTC) disaster exposed individuals to carcinogens, leading to elevated cancer rates. Responders who received care through the WTC Health Program have higher survival rates. Twenty-three years post-disaster, we summarize cancer incidence and outcome studies in this population and highlight the importance of a dedicated health programme response.","PeriodicalId":19055,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Cancer","volume":"24 11","pages":"737-738"},"PeriodicalIF":72.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142166193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The evolutionary theory of cancer: challenges and potential solutions","authors":"Lucie Laplane, Carlo C. Maley","doi":"10.1038/s41568-024-00734-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41568-024-00734-2","url":null,"abstract":"The clonal evolution model of cancer was developed in the 1950s–1970s and became central to cancer biology in the twenty-first century, largely through studies of cancer genetics. Although it has proven its worth, its structure has been challenged by observations of phenotypic plasticity, non-genetic forms of inheritance, non-genetic determinants of clone fitness and non-tree-like transmission of genes. There is even confusion about the definition of a clone, which we aim to resolve. The performance and value of the clonal evolution model depends on the empirical extent to which evolutionary processes are involved in cancer, and on its theoretical ability to account for those evolutionary processes. Here, we identify limits in the theoretical performance of the clonal evolution model and provide solutions to overcome those limits. Although we do not claim that clonal evolution can explain everything about cancer, we show how many of the complexities that have been identified in the dynamics of cancer can be integrated into the model to improve our current understanding of cancer. Clonal evolution is now a central theoretical framework in cancer research. In this Perspective, Laplane and Maley identify challenges to that theory such that some non-evolutionary phenomena in cancer cannot be captured by the theory. They also outline how other challenges, including non-genetic heredity, phenotypic plasticity, reticulate evolution and clone diversity, can be included in an expanded cancer evolutionary theory.","PeriodicalId":19055,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Cancer","volume":"24 10","pages":"718-733"},"PeriodicalIF":72.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142160471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Creating a dietary vulnerability","authors":"Daniela Senft","doi":"10.1038/s41568-024-00751-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41568-024-00751-1","url":null,"abstract":"In a recent Nature paper, Ruggero and colleagues found that fasting and ketogenic diets induce metabolic rewiring through a translational mechanism involving MNK-mediated phosphorylation of eIF4E, which enhances ketogenesis. This process creates a metabolic vulnerability in pancreatic cancer that could be therapeutically exploited.","PeriodicalId":19055,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Cancer","volume":"24 10","pages":"652-652"},"PeriodicalIF":72.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142160470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"CAF-induced physical constraints controlling T cell state and localization in solid tumours","authors":"Ludovica Arpinati, Giulia Carradori, Ruth Scherz-Shouval","doi":"10.1038/s41568-024-00740-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41568-024-00740-4","url":null,"abstract":"Solid tumours comprise cancer cells that engage in continuous interactions with non-malignant cells and with acellular components, forming the tumour microenvironment (TME). The TME has crucial and diverse roles in tumour progression and metastasis, and substantial efforts have been dedicated into understanding the functions of different cell types within the TME. These efforts highlighted the importance of non-cell-autonomous signalling in cancer, mediating interactions between the cancer cells, the immune microenvironment and the non-immune stroma. Much of this non-cell-autonomous signalling is mediated through acellular components of the TME, known as the extracellular matrix (ECM), and controlled by the cells that secrete and remodel the ECM — the cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs). In this Review, we delve into the complex crosstalk among cancer cells, CAFs and immune cells, highlighting the effects of CAF-induced ECM remodelling on T cell functions and offering insights into the potential of targeting ECM components to improve cancer therapies. In this Review, Arpinati et al. summarize how the extracellular matrix, produced primarily by cancer-associated fibroblasts, impacts tumour progression, metastasis and therapy response through modulation of T cell-mediated antitumour immunity and propose routes to target these mechanisms therapeutically.","PeriodicalId":19055,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Cancer","volume":"24 10","pages":"676-693"},"PeriodicalIF":72.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142160472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Overcoming heterogeneity with 3D whole-tumour sampling","authors":"Radhika Mathur","doi":"10.1038/s41568-024-00746-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41568-024-00746-y","url":null,"abstract":"In this Tools of the Trade article, Radhika Mathur describes the development of a novel 3D whole-tumour sampling approach for glioblastoma, which can be used to elucidate tumour heterogeneity.","PeriodicalId":19055,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Cancer","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":78.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142160473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intercepting gastric cancer","authors":"Anna Dart","doi":"10.1038/s41568-024-00748-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41568-024-00748-w","url":null,"abstract":"Pan et al. performed a large-scale, cluster-randomized controlled trial to assess whether eradicating Helicobacter pylori in asymptomatic individuals would be beneficial in preventing gastric cancer.","PeriodicalId":19055,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Cancer","volume":"24 10","pages":"651-651"},"PeriodicalIF":72.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142137935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cancer drug-tolerant persister cells: from biological questions to clinical opportunities","authors":"Mariangela Russo, Mengnuo Chen, Elisa Mariella, Haoning Peng, Sumaiyah K. Rehman, Elena Sancho, Alberto Sogari, Tzen S. Toh, Nathalie Q. Balaban, Eduard Batlle, Rene Bernards, Mathew J. Garnett, Matthew Hangauer, Eleonora Leucci, Jean-Christophe Marine, Catherine A. O’Brien, Yaara Oren, E. Elizabeth Patton, Caroline Robert, Susan M. Rosenberg, Shensi Shen, Alberto Bardelli","doi":"10.1038/s41568-024-00737-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41568-024-00737-z","url":null,"abstract":"The emergence of drug resistance is the most substantial challenge to the effectiveness of anticancer therapies. Orthogonal approaches have revealed that a subset of cells, known as drug-tolerant ‘persister’ (DTP) cells, have a prominent role in drug resistance. Although long recognized in bacterial populations which have acquired resistance to antibiotics, the presence of DTPs in various cancer types has come to light only in the past two decades, yet several aspects of their biology remain enigmatic. Here, we delve into the biological characteristics of DTPs and explore potential strategies for tracking and targeting them. Recent findings suggest that DTPs exhibit remarkable plasticity, being capable of transitioning between different cellular states, resulting in distinct DTP phenotypes within a single tumour. However, defining the biological features of DTPs has been challenging, partly due to the complex interplay between clonal dynamics and tissue-specific factors influencing their phenotype. Moreover, the interactions between DTPs and the tumour microenvironment, including their potential to evade immune surveillance, remain to be discovered. Finally, the mechanisms underlying DTP-derived drug resistance and their correlation with clinical outcomes remain poorly understood. This Roadmap aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the field of DTPs, encompassing past achievements and current endeavours in elucidating their biology. We also discuss the prospect of future advancements in technologies in helping to unveil the features of DTPs and propose novel therapeutic strategies that could lead to their eradication. Resistance to therapy remains the biggest challenge to achieving cures in patients with cancer. In this Roadmap, Russo et al. overview the field of cancer drug-tolerant persister cells providing paths to advance our understanding of their biology with innovative technologies and recommend strategies to therapeutically target them to ensure that more prolonged responses are achieved in patients with cancer.","PeriodicalId":19055,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Cancer","volume":"24 10","pages":"694-717"},"PeriodicalIF":72.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142118055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Author Correction: Integrative medicine in oncology: redefining the standard of care","authors":"Gabriel Lopez, Santhosshi Narayanan, Lorenzo Cohen","doi":"10.1038/s41568-024-00747-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41568-024-00747-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19055,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Cancer","volume":"24 11","pages":"822-822"},"PeriodicalIF":72.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41568-024-00747-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142109876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Targeting the tumour vasculature: from vessel destruction to promotion","authors":"Sophie Guelfi, Kairbaan Hodivala-Dilke, Gabriele Bergers","doi":"10.1038/s41568-024-00736-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41568-024-00736-0","url":null,"abstract":"As angiogenesis was recognized as a core hallmark of cancer growth and survival, several strategies have been implemented to target the tumour vasculature. Yet to date, attempts have rarely been so diverse, ranging from vessel growth inhibition and destruction to vessel normalization, reprogramming and vessel growth promotion. Some of these strategies, combined with standard of care, have translated into improved cancer therapies, but their successes are constrained to certain cancer types. This Review provides an overview of these vascular targeting approaches and puts them into context based on our subsequent improved understanding of the tumour vasculature as an integral part of the tumour microenvironment with which it is functionally interlinked. This new knowledge has already led to dual targeting of the vascular and immune cell compartments and sets the scene for future investigations of possible alternative approaches that consider the vascular link with other tumour microenvironment components for improved cancer therapy. Various strategies have been proposed and implemented to target the tumour vasculature, which supports tumour growth and progression. However, to date they have had variable success. Guelfi et al. describe some of these approaches and discuss how our increased understanding of the interactions between tumour vessels and the immune compartment could help generate combination therapies that provide durable responses in patients with cancer.","PeriodicalId":19055,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Cancer","volume":"24 10","pages":"655-675"},"PeriodicalIF":72.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142090121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Limiting bias in AI models for improved and equitable cancer care.","authors":"Marzyeh Ghassemi, Alexander Gusev","doi":"10.1038/s41568-024-00739-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41568-024-00739-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19055,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Cancer","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":72.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142080955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}