Pancreatic cancer evolution and heterogeneity: integrating omics and clinical data

AA Connor, S Gallinger - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), already among the deadliest epithelial
malignancies, is rising in both incidence and contribution to overall cancer deaths. Decades …

Immunologic Strategies in Pancreatic Cancer: Making Cold Tumors Hot

NA Ullman, PR Burchard, RF Dunne… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - ascopubs.org
The rising incidence and persistent dismal 5-year overall survival of pancreatic ductal
adenocarcinoma (PDAC) highlight the need for new effective systemic therapies …

Personalized RNA neoantigen vaccines stimulate T cells in pancreatic cancer

LA Rojas, Z Sethna, KC Soares, C Olcese, N Pang… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is lethal in 88% of patients, yet harbours
mutation-derived T cell neoantigens that are suitable for vaccines,. Here in a phase I trial of …

Immunotherapy for pancreatic cancer: A 2020 update

D Schizas, N Charalampakis, C Kole… - Cancer treatment …, 2020 - Elsevier
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PAC) is associated with extremely poor prognosis and remains
a lethal malignancy. The main cure for PAC is surgical resection. Further treatment …

Durvalumab with or without tremelimumab for patients with metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: a phase 2 randomized clinical trial

EM O'Reilly, DY Oh, N Dhani, DJ Renouf… - JAMA …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance New therapeutic options for patients with metastatic pancreatic ductal
adenocarcinoma (mPDAC) are needed. This study evaluated dual checkpoint combination …

Macrophage reprogramming and cancer therapeutics: role of iNOS-derived NO

K Kashfi, J Kannikal, N Nath - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Nitric oxide and its production by iNOS is an established mechanism critical to tumor
promotion or suppression. Macrophages have important roles in immunity, development …

[HTML][HTML] Dendritic cell paucity leads to dysfunctional immune surveillance in pancreatic cancer

S Hegde, VE Krisnawan, BH Herzog, C Zuo… - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Here, we utilized spontaneous models of pancreatic and lung cancer to examine how
neoantigenicity shapes tumor immunity and progression. As expected, neoantigen …

Tumor cell-intrinsic factors underlie heterogeneity of immune cell infiltration and response to immunotherapy

J Li, KT Byrne, F Yan, T Yamazoe, Z Chen, T Baslan… - Immunity, 2018 - cell.com
The biological and functional heterogeneity between tumors—both across and within cancer
types—poses a challenge for immunotherapy. To understand the factors underlying tumor …

[HTML][HTML] The CD155/TIGIT axis promotes and maintains immune evasion in neoantigen-expressing pancreatic cancer

WA Freed-Pastor, LJ Lambert, ZA Ely, NB Pattada… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
The CD155/TIGIT axis can be co-opted during immune evasion in chronic viral infections
and cancer. Pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a highly lethal malignancy, and immune …

The immune microenvironment in pancreatic cancer

M Huber, CU Brehm, TM Gress, M Buchholz… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The biology of solid tumors is strongly determined by the interactions of cancer cells with
their surrounding microenvironment. In this regard, pancreatic cancer (pancreatic ductal …