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Anirban Maitra: Cancer is a Wound That Does Not Heal

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Aug 22, 2025, 10:15

Anirban Maitra: Cancer is a Wound That Does Not Heal

Anirban Maitra, Professor at MD Anderson Cancer Center, shared on X about a recent paper by Erez N. Baruch et al. published on Nature:

“Amazing Nature paper by Moran Amitand the MD Anderson Cancer Center cancer neuroscience team.

Cancer is a wound that does not heal but now we learn that injury phenomenon also extends to nerves!

Cancer-induced nerve injury promotes resistance to anti-PD-1 therapy.”

Title: Cancer-induced nerve injury promotes resistance to anti-PD-1 therapy

Authors: Erez N. Baruch, Frederico O. Gleber-Netto, Priyadharsini Nagarajan, Xiayu Rao, Shamima Akhter, Tuany Eichwald, Tongxin Xie, Mohammad Balood, Adebayo Adewale, Shorook Naara, Hinduja N. Sathishkumar, Shajedul Islam, William McCarthy, Brandi J. Mattson, Renata Ferrarotto, Michael K. Wong, Michael A. Davies, Sonali Jindal, Sreyashi Basu, Karine Roversi, Amin Reza Nikpoor, Maryam Ahmadi, Ali Ahmadi, Catherine Harwood, Irene Leigh, Dennis Gong, Paulino Tallón de Lara, Derrick L. Tao, Tara M. Davidson, Nadim J. Ajami, Andrew Futreal, Kunal Rai, Veena Kochat, Micah Castillo, Preethi Gunaratne, Ryan P. Goepfert, Sharia D. Hernandez, Nikhil I. Khushalani, Jing Wang, Stephanie S. Watowich, George A. Calin, Michael R. Migden, Mona Yuan, Naijiang Liu, Yi Ye, William L. Hwang, Paola D. Vermeer, Nisha J. D’Silva, Yuri L. Bunimovich, Dan Yaniv, Jared K. Burks, Javier Gomez, Patrick M. Dougherty, Kenneth Y. Tsai, James P. Allison, Padmanee Sharma, Jennifer A. Wargo, Jeffrey N. Myers, Sebastien Talbot, Neil D. Gross & Moran Amit

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