Tumor evolution: Linear, branching, neutral or punctuated?

A Davis, R Gao, N Navin - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews …, 2017 - Elsevier
Intratumor heterogeneity has been widely reported in human cancers, but our knowledge of
how this genetic diversity emerges over time remains limited. A central challenge in studying …

Tumor microenvironment: an evil nexus promoting aggressive head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and avenue for targeted therapy

AA Bhat, P Yousuf, NA Wani, A Rizwan… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is a very aggressive disease with a poor
prognosis for advanced-stage tumors. Recent clinical, genomic, and cellular studies have …

Non-genetic cancer cell plasticity and therapy-induced stemness in tumour relapse:'What does not kill me strengthens me'

AO Pisco, S Huang - British journal of cancer, 2015 - nature.com
Therapy resistance and tumour relapse after drug therapy are commonly explained by
Darwinian selection of pre-existing drug-resistant, often stem-like cancer cells resulting from …

[HTML][HTML] Repurposing drugs in oncology (ReDO)—Cimetidine as an anti-cancer agent

P Pantziarka, G Bouche, L Meheus… - …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cimetidine, the first H 2 receptor antagonist in widespread clinical use, has anti-cancer
properties that have been elucidated in a broad range of pre-clinical and clinical studies for …

Targeting regulatory T cells in tumors

C Liu, CJ Workman, DAA Vignali - The FEBS journal, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Regulatory T (Treg) cells play a crucial role in maintaining peripheral tolerance and
preventing autoimmunity. However, they also represent a major barrier to effective antitumor …

Metronomic chemotherapy: an attractive alternative to maximum tolerated dose therapy that can activate anti-tumor immunity and minimize therapeutic resistance

I Kareva, DJ Waxman, GL Klement - Cancer letters, 2015 - Elsevier
The administration of chemotherapy at reduced doses given at regular, frequent time
intervals, termed 'metronomic'chemotherapy, presents an alternative to standard maximal …

Immunotherapy for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

J Moskovitz, J Moy, RL Ferris - Current oncology reports, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Discussion of current strategies targeting the immune system
related to solid tumors with emphasis on head and neck squamous cell carcinoma …

Metronomic cyclophosphamide treatment in metastasized breast cancer patients: immunological effects and clinical outcome

Y Ge, C Domschke, N Stoiber, S Schott, J Heil… - Cancer immunology …, 2012 - Springer
Severe immune suppression is frequent in late-stage tumor patients and promotes tumor
immune evasion and subsequent tumor progression. Regulatory T cells (Treg) are major …

Nanoformulations-based metronomic chemotherapy: mechanism, challenges, recent advances, and future perspectives

VK Panthi, K Dua, SK Singh, G Gupta, PM Hansbro… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cancer-related death is a significant health and economic burden worldwide, and some
conventional chemotherapy is associated with limited effectiveness in completely curing …

Polymeric drug delivery systems for localized cancer chemotherapy

R De Souza, P Zahedi, CJ Allen, M Piquette-Miller - Drug delivery, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Cancer has become one of the most difficult health challenges of our time, accounting for
millions of deaths yearly. Systemic chemotherapy is the most common therapeutic approach; …