Breast cancer dormancy: need for clinically relevant models to address current gaps in knowledge

GG Bushnell, AP Deshmukh, P den Hollander… - NPJ breast …, 2021 - nature.com
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the USA. Although advances in
treatment over the past several decades have significantly improved the outlook for this …

Comprehensive review of molecular mechanisms and clinical features of invasive lobular cancer

N Pramod, A Nigam, M Basree, R Mawalkar… - The …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) accounts for 10% to 15% of breast cancers in the United
States, 80% of which are estrogen receptor (ER)-positive, with an unusual metastatic pattern …

Mitochondrial fission links ECM mechanotransduction to metabolic redox homeostasis and metastatic chemotherapy resistance

P Romani, N Nirchio, M Arboit, V Barbieri, A Tosi… - Nature cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Metastatic breast cancer cells disseminate to organs with a soft microenvironment. Whether
and how the mechanical properties of the local tissue influence their response to treatment …

Dormancy in breast cancer

E Dalla, A Sreekumar… - Cold Spring …, 2023 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
The pattern of delayed recurrence in a subset of breast cancer patients has long been
explained by a model that incorporates a variable period of cellular or tumor mass dormancy …

Dormancy-inducing 3D engineered matrix uncovers mechanosensitive and drug-protective FHL2-p21 signaling axis

S Bakhshandeh, U Heras, HM Taïeb… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Solid cancers frequently relapse with distant metastasis, despite local and systemic
treatment. Cellular dormancy has been identified as an important mechanism underlying …

Recent insights into the effects of metabolism on breast cancer cell dormancy

S Bartlome, CC Berry - British Journal of Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Breast cancer (BC) remains the most common cancer, as well as the leading cause of
cancer mortality in women worldwide. Approximately 30% of patients with early-stage BC …

An engineered model of metastatic colonization of human bone marrow reveals breast cancer cell remodeling of the hematopoietic niche

I Baldassarri, DN Tavakol, PL Graney… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Incomplete understanding of metastatic disease mechanisms continues to hinder effective
treatment of cancer. Despite remarkable advancements toward the identification of …

Laboratory models for investigating breast cancer therapy resistance and metastasis

K Roarty, GV Echeverria - Frontiers in oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
While numerous therapies are highly efficacious in early-stage breast cancers and in
particular subsets of breast cancers, therapeutic resistance and metastasis unfortunately …

Engineering complexity in human tissue models of cancer

K Ronaldson-Bouchard, I Baldassarri… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Major progress in the understanding and treatment of cancer have tremendously improved
our knowledge of this complex disease and improved the length and quality of patients' …

Modeling the role of cancer-associated fibroblasts in tumor cell invasion

S Poon, LE Ailles - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Accurate in vitro modeling of diseases is essential to making breakthrough
and clinically relevant discoveries. Assays to examine the process of invasion—a classical …