[HTML][HTML] Improving radiotherapy in cancer treatment: Promises and challenges

HHW Chen, MT Kuo - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Effective radiotherapy for cancer has relied on the promise of maximally eradicating tumor
cells while minimally killing normal cells. Technological advancement has provided state-of …

The role of tumor microenvironment in therapeutic resistance

B Son, S Lee, HS Youn, EG Kim, W Kim… - Oncotarget, 2016 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cancer cells undergo unlimited progression and survival owing to activation of oncogenes.
However, support of the tumor microenvironment is essential to the formation of clinically …

Extracellular cGAMP is a cancer-cell-produced immunotransmitter involved in radiation-induced anticancer immunity

JA Carozza, V Böhnert, KC Nguyen, G Skariah… - Nature cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Cyclic GMP-AMP (cGAMP) is an intracellular second messenger that is synthesized in
response to cytosolic double-stranded DNA and activates the innate immune STING …

The pro-tumorigenic host response to cancer therapies

Y Shaked - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
Resistance to cancer therapy remains a major challenge in clinical oncology. Although the
initial treatment phase is often successful, eventual resistance, characterized by tumour …

Does the mobilization of circulating tumour cells during cancer therapy cause metastasis?

OA Martin, RL Anderson, K Narayan… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2017 - nature.com
Despite progressive improvements in the management of patients with locoregionally
confined, advanced-stage solid tumours, distant metastasis remains a very common—and …

Human SLC46A2 is the dominant cGAMP importer in extracellular cGAMP-sensing macrophages and monocytes

AF Cordova, C Ritchie, V Bohnert, L Li - ACS central science, 2021 - ACS Publications
Administration of exogenous CDNs to activate the cGAMP-STING pathway is a promising
therapeutic strategy to unleash the full potential of cancer immunotherapy. This strategy …

Tumor cell nuclei soften during transendothelial migration

AB Roberts, J Zhang, VR Singh, M Nikolić… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
During cancer metastasis, tumor cells undergo significant deformation in order to traverse
through endothelial cell junctions in the walls of blood vessels. As cells pass through narrow …

The importance of hypoxia in radiotherapy for the immune response, metastatic potential and FLASH-RT

EJ Moon, K Petersson, MM Olcina - International journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Hypoxia (low oxygen) is a common feature of solid tumors that has been intensely
studied for more than six decades. Here we review the importance of hypoxia to …

ENPP1 is an innate immune checkpoint of the anticancer cGAMP–STING pathway in breast cancer

S Wang, V Böhnert, AJ Joseph… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Ectonucleotide pyrophosphatase/phosphodiesterase 1 (ENPP1) expression correlates with
poor prognosis in many cancers, and we previously discovered that ENPP1 is the dominant …

Effects of radiation on metastasis and tumor cell migration

M Vilalta, M Rafat, EE Graves - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2016 - Springer
It is well known that tumor cells migrate from the primary lesion to distant sites to form
metastases and that these lesions limit patient outcome in a majority of cases. However, the …