Tackling cancer cell dormancy: Insights from immune models, and transplantation

Disseminated non-dividing (dormant) cancer cells as well as those in equilibrium with the immune response remain the major challenge for successful treatment of cancer. The equilibrium between disseminated dormant cancer cells and the immune system is reminiscent of states that can occur during infe...

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Published in:Seminars in cancer biology 2021
Main Authors: Corthay, Alexandre, Bakacs, Tibor, Thangavelu, Govindarajan, Anderson, Colin C
Format: Article
Language:Norwegian
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Summary:Disseminated non-dividing (dormant) cancer cells as well as those in equilibrium with the immune response remain the major challenge for successful treatment of cancer. The equilibrium between disseminated dormant cancer cells and the immune system is reminiscent of states that can occur during infection or allogeneic tissue and cell transplantation. We discuss here the major competing models of how the immune system achieves a self nonself discrimination (pathogen/danger patterns, quorum, and coinhibition/tuning models), and suggest that taking advantage of a combination of the proposed mechanisms in each model may lead to increased efficacy in tackling cancer cell dormancy.
ISSN:1044-579X
1096-3650