Z. Guleken, H. Bulut, Kürşat Rahmi Serin, M. Büyük, E. Ulukaya
{"title":"Assessment of thiol/disulfide homeostasis for prognostic follow-up of cholangiocarcinoma patients","authors":"Z. Guleken, H. Bulut, Kürşat Rahmi Serin, M. Büyük, E. Ulukaya","doi":"10.53388/2023623009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53388/2023623009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50875,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Cancer Research","volume":"98 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86058430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
António M Palma, Vignesh Vudatha, Maria Leonor Peixoto, Esha Madan
{"title":"Tumor heterogeneity: An oncogenic driver of PDAC progression and therapy resistance under stress conditions.","authors":"António M Palma, Vignesh Vudatha, Maria Leonor Peixoto, Esha Madan","doi":"10.1016/bs.acr.2023.02.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/bs.acr.2023.02.005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a clinically challenging disease usually diagnosed at advanced or metastasized stage. By this year end, there are an expected increase in 62,210 new cases and 49,830 deaths in the United States, with 90% corresponding to PDAC subtype alone. Despite advances in cancer therapy, one of the major challenges combating PDAC remains tumor heterogeneity between PDAC patients and within the primary and metastatic lesions of the same patient. This review describes the PDAC subtypes based on the genomic, transcriptional, epigenetic, and metabolic signatures observed among patients and within individual tumors. Recent studies in tumor biology suggest PDAC heterogeneity as a major driver of disease progression under conditions of stress including hypoxia and nutrient deprivation, leading to metabolic reprogramming. We therefore advance our understanding in identifying the underlying mechanisms that interfere with the crosstalk between the extracellular matrix components and tumor cells that define the mechanics of tumor growth and metastasis. The bilateral interaction between the heterogeneous tumor microenvironment and PDAC cells serves as another important contributor that characterizes the tumor-promoting or tumor-suppressing phenotypes providing an opportunity for an effective treatment regime. Furthermore, we highlight the dynamic reciprocating interplay between the stromal and immune cells that impact immune surveillance or immune evasion response and contribute towards a complex process of tumorigenesis. In summary, the review encapsulates the existing knowledge of the currently applied treatments for PDAC with emphasis on tumor heterogeneity, manifesting at multiple levels, impacting disease progression and therapy resistance under stress.</p>","PeriodicalId":50875,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Cancer Research","volume":"159 ","pages":"203-249"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9653442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The epigenome and the many facets of cancer drug tolerance.","authors":"Paul C Moore, Kurt W Henderson, Marie Classon","doi":"10.1016/bs.acr.2022.12.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.acr.2022.12.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The use of chemotherapeutic agents and the development of new cancer therapies over the past few decades has consequently led to the emergence of myriad therapeutic resistance mechanisms. Once thought to be explicitly driven by genetics, the coupling of reversible sensitivity and absence of pre-existing mutations in some tumors opened the way for discovery of drug-tolerant persisters (DTPs): slow-cycling subpopulations of tumor cells that exhibit reversible sensitivity to therapy. These cells confer multi-drug tolerance, to targeted and chemotherapies alike, until the residual disease can establish a stable, drug-resistant state. The DTP state can exploit a multitude of distinct, yet interlaced, mechanisms to survive otherwise lethal drug exposures. Here, we categorize these multi-faceted defense mechanisms into unique Hallmarks of Cancer Drug Tolerance. At the highest level, these are comprised of heterogeneity, signaling plasticity, differentiation, proliferation/metabolism, stress management, genomic integrity, crosstalk with the tumor microenvironment, immune escape, and epigenetic regulatory mechanisms. Of these, epigenetics was both one of the first proposed means of non-genetic resistance and one of the first discovered. As we describe in this review, epigenetic regulatory factors are involved in most facets of DTP biology, positioning this hallmark as an overarching mediator of drug tolerance and a potential avenue to novel therapies.</p>","PeriodicalId":50875,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Cancer Research","volume":"158 ","pages":"1-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9335657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Creighton Friend, Parash Parajuli, Mohammed S Razzaque, Azeddine Atfi
{"title":"Deciphering epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in pancreatic cancer.","authors":"Creighton Friend, Parash Parajuli, Mohammed S Razzaque, Azeddine Atfi","doi":"10.1016/bs.acr.2023.02.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/bs.acr.2023.02.008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a complex cellular program that alters epithelial cells and induces their transformation into mesenchymal cells. While essential to normal developmental processes such as embryogenesis and wound healing, EMT has also been linked to the development and progression of various diseases, including fibrogenesis and tumorigenesis. Under homeostatic conditions, initiation of EMT is mediated by key signaling pathways and pro-EMT-transcription factors (EMT-TFs); however, in certain contexts, these pro-EMT regulators and programs also drive cell plasticity and cell stemness to promote oncogenesis as well as metastasis. In this review, we will explain how EMT and EMT-TFs mediate the initiation of pro-cancer states and how they influence late-stage progression and metastasis in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), the most severe form of pancreatic cancer.</p>","PeriodicalId":50875,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Cancer Research","volume":"159 ","pages":"37-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10016966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nicholas M Riley, Ru M Wen, Carolyn R Bertozzi, James D Brooks, Sharon J Pitteri
{"title":"Measuring the multifaceted roles of mucin-domain glycoproteins in cancer.","authors":"Nicholas M Riley, Ru M Wen, Carolyn R Bertozzi, James D Brooks, Sharon J Pitteri","doi":"10.1016/bs.acr.2022.09.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/bs.acr.2022.09.001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mucin-domain glycoproteins are highly O-glycosylated cell surface and secreted proteins that serve as both biochemical and biophysical modulators. Aberrant expression and glycosylation of mucins are known hallmarks in numerous malignancies, yet mucin-domain glycoproteins remain enigmatic in the broad landscape of cancer glycobiology. Here we review the multifaceted roles of mucins in cancer through the lens of the analytical and biochemical methods used to study them. We also describe a collection of emerging tools that are specifically equipped to characterize mucin-domain glycoproteins in complex biological backgrounds. These approaches are poised to further elucidate how mucin biology can be understood and subsequently targeted for the next generation of cancer therapeutics.</p>","PeriodicalId":50875,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Cancer Research","volume":"157 ","pages":"83-121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10582998/pdf/nihms-1936073.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9915939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clinical evidence of neoadjuvant immunotherapy for resectable locally advanced esophageal carcinoma: A systematic review","authors":"Zikun Wu, Chong Xiao, Xue-Ke Li, Feng-Ming You","doi":"10.53388/2023623013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53388/2023623013","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) as the neoadjuvant therapy for resectable locally advanced esophageal carcinoma (rlaEC) remains challenging given the poor reports of efficacy and safety. This study aimed to summarize reliable evidence for the preoperative neoadjuvant immunotherapy of rlaEC by analyzing all the published clinical trials on the ICIs as the neoadjuvant therapy for rlaEC. Methods: PubMed, Cochrane Library, Embase and ClinicalTrials.gov were searched from inception until June 1st, 2023, for available reports to perform a meta-analysis. The primary endpoints were R0 resection, objective response rate (ORR), pathological complete response (pCR) and major pathological response (MPR), as well as treatment-related adverse events (AEs) and postoperative complications. The Stata 14.0 software was employed to estimate pooled effect size. Results: A total of 18 single-arm clinical trials involving 625 patients met the inclusion criteria. Meta-analysis showed that, among these patients with rlaEC, the pooled R0 resection rate was 97.0% (95% CI: 94.0% – 99.0%), the pooled ORR was 70.0% (95% CI: 64.0% – 76.0%), the pooled pCR and MPR rate were 34.0% (95 % CI: 29.0% – 39.0%) and 56.0% (95% CI: 47.0% – 65.0%) respectively. The incidence of main treatment-related AEs and postoperative complications was about 6% – 45% and 8% – 19% respectively. Conclusions: Patients with rlaEC were tolerated to neoadjuvant immunotherapy and it might be beneficial to improve efficacy. But this meta-analysis had limitations and the conclusions still needed to be validated by more rigorous phase III randomized controlled clinical trials.","PeriodicalId":50875,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Cancer Research","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74723479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cancer and diet: significance of diet in a patient whose life expectancy was 4 to 5 months","authors":"José Ramón Toro López","doi":"10.53388/2023623002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53388/2023623002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50875,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Cancer Research","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90489143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The biology of E-selectin ligands in leukemogenesis.","authors":"Evan Ales, Robert Sackstein","doi":"10.1016/bs.acr.2022.07.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.acr.2022.07.001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Both the cascade whereby a blood-borne cell enters a tissue and the anchoring of hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSPCs) within bone marrow critically pivots on cell-cell interactions mediated by E-selectin binding to its canonical carbohydrate ligand, the tetrasaccharide termed \"sialylated Lewis X\" (sLeX). E-selectin, a member of the selectin class of adhesion molecules that is exclusively expressed by vascular endothelium, engages sLeX-bearing glycoconjugates that adorn mature leukocytes and HSPCs, as well as malignant cells, thereby permitting these cells to extravasate into various tissues. E-selectin expression is induced on microvascular endothelial cells within inflammatory loci at all tissues. However, conspicuously, E-selectin is constitutively expressed within microvessels in skin and marrow and, additionally, is inducibly expressed at these sites. Within the marrow, E-selectin receptor/ligand interactions promote lodgment of HSPCs and their malignant counterparts within hematopoietic growth-promoting microenvironments, collectively known as \"vascular niches\". Indeed, E-selectin receptor/ligand interactions have been reported to regulate both hematopoietic stem, and leukemic, cell proliferative dynamics. As such, signaling induced via engagement of E-selectin ligands is gaining interest as a critical mediator of homeostatic and malignant hematopoiesis, and this review will present current perspectives on the glycoconjugates mediating E-selectin receptor/ligand interactions and their currently defined role(s) in leukemogenesis.</p>","PeriodicalId":50875,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Cancer Research","volume":"157 ","pages":"229-250"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9735209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collaborative Spirit Drives the Field of Tumor Glycobiology: A Preface to Special Volume on Cancer Glycobiology.","authors":"Charles J Dimitroff, Karen L Abbott","doi":"10.1016/S0065-230X(23)00010-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0065-230X(23)00010-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50875,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Cancer Research","volume":"157 ","pages":"xv-xvi"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9289752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christiana O Appiah, Manjulata Singh, Lauren May, Ishita Bakshi, Ashish Vaidyanathan, Paul Dent, Gordon Ginder, Steven Grant, Harry Bear, Joseph Landry
{"title":"The epigenetic regulation of cancer cell recovery from therapy exposure and its implications as a novel therapeutic strategy for preventing disease recurrence.","authors":"Christiana O Appiah, Manjulata Singh, Lauren May, Ishita Bakshi, Ashish Vaidyanathan, Paul Dent, Gordon Ginder, Steven Grant, Harry Bear, Joseph Landry","doi":"10.1016/bs.acr.2022.11.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.acr.2022.11.001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The ultimate goal of cancer therapy is the elimination of disease from patients. Most directly, this occurs through therapy-induced cell death. Therapy-induced growth arrest can also be a desirable outcome, if prolonged. Unfortunately, therapy-induced growth arrest is rarely durable and the recovering cell population can contribute to cancer recurrence. Consequently, therapeutic strategies that eliminate residual cancer cells reduce opportunities for recurrence. Recovery can occur through diverse mechanisms including quiescence or diapause, exit from senescence, suppression of apoptosis, cytoprotective autophagy, and reductive divisions resulting from polyploidy. Epigenetic regulation of the genome represents a fundamental regulatory mechanism integral to cancer-specific biology, including the recovery from therapy. Epigenetic pathways are particularly attractive therapeutic targets because they are reversible, without changes in DNA, and are catalyzed by druggable enzymes. Previous use of epigenetic-targeting therapies in combination with cancer therapeutics has not been widely successful because of either unacceptable toxicity or limited efficacy. The use of epigenetic-targeting therapies after a significant interval following initial cancer therapy could potentially reduce the toxicity of combination strategies, and possibly exploit essential epigenetic states following therapy exposure. This review examines the feasibility of targeting epigenetic mechanisms using a sequential approach to eliminate residual therapy-arrested populations, that might possibly prevent recovery and disease recurrence.</p>","PeriodicalId":50875,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Cancer Research","volume":"158 ","pages":"337-385"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9335662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}