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Pancreatic Cancer: From Mechanisms to Therapeutic Approaches (3rd Edition)
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Pancreatic Cancer: From Mechanisms to Therapeutic Approaches (3rd Edition)

A special issue of Biomedicines (ISSN 2227-9059). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Biology and Oncology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 1180

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Prof. Dr. Satoshi Wada

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Department of Clinical Diagnostic Oncology, Showa University Clinical Research Institute for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 6-11-11 kita-karasuyama, setagaya-ku, Tokyo 157-8577, Japan
Interests: cancer immunotherapy; biomarker; CAR-T; Immune checkpoint inhibitor; pancreatic cancer
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Dear Colleagues,

Recent advances in cancer treatment research and development, especially the development of immune checkpoint inhibitors, have dramatically increased the life expectancy of patients diagnosed with cancer over the past decade. In addition, advances in comprehensive genetic analysis have made it possible to analyze abnormalities in driver genes that are important for the growth of cancer, and the development of specific therapeutic agents for such abnormalities has also progressed. Even under such circumstances, pancreatic cancer has not benefited from new therapeutic agents, with little improvement in prognosis. Why does pancreatic cancer have a worse prognosis than other cancer types? Why are new therapeutic agents developed that do not work for pancreatic cancer? In order to solve these questions, this Special Issue explores the mechanisms that are unique to pancreatic cancer and aims to lead the development of novel therapeutic agents that can overcome these problems.

Prof. Dr. Satoshi Wada
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Keywords

  • pancreatic cancer
  • tumor microenvironment
  • biomarker
  • immune environment in pancreatic cancer

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MUC1-C Dependence for the Progression of Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors Identifies a Druggable Target for the Treatment of This Rare Cancer
by Hiroki Ozawa, Naoki Haratake, Ayako Nakashoji, Tatsuaki Daimon, Atrayee Bhattacharya, Keyi Wang, Keisuke Shigeta, Atsushi Fushimi, Kazumasa Fukuda, Yohei Masugi, Ryo Yamaguchi, Minoru Kitago, Hirofumi Kawakubo, Yuko Kitagawa and Donald Kufe
Biomedicines 2024, 12(7), 1509; https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines12071509 - 8 Jul 2024
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Patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNETs) have limited access to effective targeted agents and invariably succumb to progressive disease. MUC1-C is a druggable oncogenic protein linked to driving pan-cancers. There is no known involvement of MUC1-C in pNET progression. The present work was [...] Read more.
Patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNETs) have limited access to effective targeted agents and invariably succumb to progressive disease. MUC1-C is a druggable oncogenic protein linked to driving pan-cancers. There is no known involvement of MUC1-C in pNET progression. The present work was performed to determine if MUC1-C represents a potential target for advancing pNET treatment. We demonstrate that the MUC1 gene is upregulated in primary pNETs that progress with metastatic disease. In pNET cells, MUC1-C drives E2F- and MYC-signaling pathways necessary for survival. Targeting MUC1-C genetically and pharmacologically also inhibits self-renewal capacity and tumorigenicity. Studies of primary pNET tissues further demonstrate that MUC1-C expression is associated with (i) an advanced NET grade and pathological stage, (ii) metastatic disease, and (iii) decreased disease-free survival. These findings demonstrate that MUC1-C is necessary for pNET progression and is a novel target for treating these rare cancers with anti-MUC1-C agents under clinical development. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pancreatic Cancer: From Mechanisms to Therapeutic Approaches (3rd Edition))
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A Case with Multiple Pathologies in the Pancreatic Head
by Miroslav Vujasinovic, Sam Ghazi, Nikolaos Kartalis, Maria Gustafsson Liljefors, Melroy A. D’Souza, Poya Ghorbani and J.-Matthias Löhr
Biomedicines 2024, 12(8), 1762; https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines12081762 - 5 Aug 2024
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Objectives: Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) type 1, paraduodenal (groove) pancreatitis, and follicular pancreatitis are rare clinical entities whose diagnosis may be challenging, given the potential imaging overlap with pancreatic cancer. Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of the medical chart of a patient with [...] Read more.
Objectives: Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) type 1, paraduodenal (groove) pancreatitis, and follicular pancreatitis are rare clinical entities whose diagnosis may be challenging, given the potential imaging overlap with pancreatic cancer. Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of the medical chart of a patient with multiple pancreas pathologies. Results: We present a case with multiple pancreas pathologies, including a poorly differentiated ductal adenocarcinoma of pancreatobiliary type, an intraductal papillary mucinous lesion (pre-existing lesion of IPMN type), and an inflammatory process with complex features, in which paraduodenal (groove) pancreatitis, follicular pancreatitis, and IgG4-related pancreatitis (AIP type 1) were also present. Conclusions: The diagnosis of AIP and paraduodenal pancreatitis is not always straightforward, and in some cases, it is not easy to differentiate them from pancreatic cancer. Surgery should be considered in patients when a suspicion of malignant/premalignant lesions cannot be excluded after a complete diagnostic work-up. Full article
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