Tumor microenvironment in pancreatic cancer pathogenesis and therapeutic resistance

MH Sherman, GL Beatty - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) features a prominent stromal microenvironment
with remarkable cellular and spatial heterogeneity that meaningfully impacts disease …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] An NK-like CAR T cell transition in CAR T cell dysfunction

CR Good, MA Aznar, S Kuramitsu, P Samareh… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has achieved remarkable success in
hematological malignancies but remains ineffective in solid tumors, due in part to CAR T cell …

Synthetic cytokine circuits that drive T cells into immune-excluded tumors

GM Allen, NW Frankel, NR Reddy, HK Bhargava… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells are ineffective against solid tumors with
immunosuppressive microenvironments. To overcome suppression, we engineered circuits …

In vitro-transcribed antigen receptor mRNA nanocarriers for transient expression in circulating T cells in vivo

NN Parayath, SB Stephan, AL Koehne… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Engineering chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) or T cell receptors (TCR) helps create
disease-specific T cells for targeted therapy, but the cost and rigor associated with …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges and opportunities for pancreatic cancer immunotherapy

AS Bear, RH Vonderheide, MH O'Hara - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is among the most immune-resistant tumor types.
Its unique genomic landscape shaped by oncogenic drivers promotes immune suppression …

Targeting the tumour stroma to improve cancer therapy

KC Valkenburg, AE De Groot, KJ Pienta - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2018 - nature.com
Cancers are not composed merely of cancer cells alone; instead, they are complex
'ecosystems' comprising many different cell types and noncellular factors. The tumour stroma …

[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 …

Combination immunotherapy with CAR T cells and checkpoint blockade for the treatment of solid tumors

R Grosser, L Cherkassky, N Chintala, PS Adusumilli - Cancer cell, 2019 - cell.com
Checkpoint blockade (CPB) therapy can elicit durable clinical responses by reactivating an
exhausted immune response. However, response rates remain limited, likely secondary to a …

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 …