Broadening the impact of immunotherapy to pancreatic cancer: challenges and opportunities

VP Balachandran, GL Beatty, SK Dougan - Gastroenterology, 2019 - Elsevier
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is projected to become the second deadliest
cancer in the United States by 2025, with 5-year survival at less than 10%. In other …

Interleukin-1 as innate mediator of T cell immunity

B Van Den Eeckhout, J Tavernier, S Gerlo - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The three-signal paradigm tries to capture how the innate immune system instructs adaptive
immune responses in three well-defined actions:(1) presentation of antigenic peptides in the …

Nano-enabled pancreas cancer immunotherapy using immunogenic cell death and reversing immunosuppression

J Lu, X Liu, YP Liao, F Salazar, B Sun, W Jiang… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
While chemotherapy delivery by nanocarriers has modestly improved the survival prospects
of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), additional engagement of the immune …

Pancreatic cancer and immunotherapy: a clinical overview

FEF Timmer, B Geboers, S Nieuwenhuizen, M Dijkstra… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is an aggressive cancer with a
dismal prognosis. While immunotherapy has been deemed a breakthrough treatment for …

Immune evasion in pancreatic cancer: from mechanisms to therapy

N Martinez-Bosch, J Vinaixa, P Navarro - Cancers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA), the most frequent type of pancreatic cancer,
remains one of the most challenging problems for the biomedical and clinical fields, with …

The role of immunotherapy in pancreatic cancer

R Mukherji, D Debnath, ML Hartley, MS Noel - Current Oncology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma remains one of the most lethal cancers globally, with a
significant need for improved therapeutic options. While the recent breakthroughs of …

[HTML][HTML] T cells engineered against a native antigen can surmount immunologic and physical barriers to treat pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

IM Stromnes, TM Schmitt, A Hulbert, JS Brockenbrough… - Cancer cell, 2015 - cell.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (PDAs) erect physical barriers to chemotherapy and
induce multiple mechanisms of immune suppression, creating a sanctuary for unimpeded …

Targeting tumor immunosuppressive microenvironment for pancreatic cancer immunotherapy: Current research and future perspective

Y Li, S Xiang, W Pan, J Wang, H Zhan, S Liu - Frontiers in Oncology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most malignant tumors with increased incidence rate. The
effect of surgery combined with chemoradiotherapy on survival of patients is unsatisfactory …

Irreversible electroporation of locally advanced pancreatic cancer transiently alleviates immune suppression and creates a window for antitumor T cell activation

HJ Scheffer, AGM Stam, B Geboers… - …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose: Local tumor ablation through irreversible electroporation (IRE) may offer a novel
therapeutic option for locally advanced pancreatic cancer (LAPC). It may also serve as a …

[HTML][HTML] Systemic treatment of pancreatic cancer revisited

M Ducreux, T Seufferlein, JL Van Laethem… - Seminars in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Pancreatic cancer is considered to be one of the most aggressive cancers. For unknown
reasons, the incidence of pancreatic cancer is slowly rising and so too are mortality rates …