KISS1 metastasis suppressor in tumor dormancy: a potential therapeutic target for metastatic cancers?

S Harihar, DR Welch - Cancer and Metastasis Reviews, 2023 - Springer
Present therapeutic approaches do not effectively target metastatic cancers, often limited by
their inability to eliminate already-seeded non-proliferative, growth-arrested, or therapy …

Forging new therapeutic targets: efforts of tumor derived exosomes to prepare the pre-metastatic niche for cancer cell dissemination and dormancy

R Bhatia, J Chang, JL Munoz, ND Walker - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Tumor-derived exosomes play a multifaceted role in preparing the pre-metastatic niche,
promoting cancer dissemination, and regulating cancer cell dormancy. A brief review of …

Quantification of plasma exosome is a potential prognostic marker for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Y Matsumoto, M Kano, Y Akutsu… - Oncology …, 2016 - spandidos-publications.com
Exosomes play important roles in cancer progression. Although its contents (eg, proteins
and microRNAs) have been focused on in cancer research, particularly as potential …

Dynamic bioinspired coculture model for probing ER+ breast cancer dormancy in the bone marrow niche

L Pradhan, DV Moore, EM Ovadia, SL Swedzinski… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Late recurrences of breast cancer are hypothesized to arise from disseminated tumor cells
(DTCs) that reactivate after dormancy and occur most frequently with estrogen receptor …

Engineered In Vitro Models of Tumor Dormancy and Reactivation

S Pradhan, JL Sperduto, CJ Farino… - Journal of biological …, 2018 - Springer
Metastatic recurrence is a major hurdle to overcome for successful control of cancer-
associated death. Residual tumor cells in the primary site, or disseminated tumor cells in …

Human aging and cancer: role of miRNA in tumor microenvironment

OA Sandiford, CA Moore, J Du, M Boulad… - Exosomes, Stem Cells …, 2018 - Springer
Human aging is an inevitable and complex phenomenon characterized by a progressive,
gradual degradation of physiological and cellular processes that leads from vulnerability to …

Gel-free 3D tumoroids with stem cell properties modeling drug resistance to cisplatin and imatinib in metastatic colorectal cancer

C Sogawa, T Eguchi, Y Namba, Y Okusha, E Aoyama… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Researchers have developed several three-dimensional (3D) culture systems, including
spheroids, organoids, and tumoroids with increased properties of cancer stem cells (CSCs) …

The tumor immune microenvironment in breast cancer progression

MO Fjørtoft, K Huse, IH Rye - Acta Oncologica, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background The tumor microenvironment significantly influences breast cancer
development, progression, and metastasis. Various immune cell populations, including T …

Outlook and opportunities for engineered environments of breast cancer dormancy

NR Richbourg, N Irakoze, H Kim, SR Peyton - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Dormant, disseminated breast cancer cells resist treatment and may relapse into malignant
metastases after decades of quiescence. Identifying how and why these dormant breast …

Mesenchymal stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles may promote breast cancer cell dormancy

J Casson, OG Davies, CA Smith… - Journal of tissue …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Disseminated breast cancer cells have the capacity to metastasise to the bone marrow and
reside in a dormant state within the mesenchymal stem cell niche. Research has focussed …