The cancer microenvironment, or tumour microenvironment, describes the non-cancerous cells present in the tumour. These include fibroblasts, immune cells and cells that comprise the blood vessels.
The tumor cells are too varied, and the microenvironment is too tumor-friendly. ... Researchers Make Glioblastoma Cells Visible to Attacking Immune Cells Nov. 7, 2024 — Researchers have ...
Tumor cells transform fibroblasts into cancer-associated fibroblasts, which have an important immunosuppressive activity on which growth, invasion, and metastasis depend. These activated fibroblasts ...
The liver is one of the organs in which hypoxia helps to regulate gene expression under normal physiological conditions, as well as diseases such as cirrhosis and cancer. Hypoxia enhances ...
In a subgroup of patients with tissue available for RNA sequencing, preoperative embolization was associated with changes in gene expression consistent with a hypoxic effect on tumor cells ...
During the past 20 years, the advent of neoadjuvant, primary, and adjuvant concurrent chemoradiotherapy has improved cancer care dramatically. Significant contributions have been made by ...