Cosimo Commisso: Pancreatic Cancer Builds Immune Safe Zones to Evade Treatment
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Cosimo Commisso: Pancreatic Cancer Builds Immune Safe Zones to Evade Treatment

Cosimo Commisso, Professor and Deputy Director, NCI-Designated Cancer Center, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute,  shared on LinkedIn:

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai researchers discovered that pancreatic cancer cells use two specific proteins to build ‘safe zones’ around themselves, recruiting immune cells that shield the tumor and keep cancer-fighting cells out.

Blocking these proteins in mice made the tumors more vulnerable to immunotherapy, pointing to a potential new strategy for treating this hard-to-treat cancer.”

Title: A serpin–myeloid axis in pancreatic cancer heterogeneity and immune evasion

Authors: Chiara Falcomatà, Maximilian M. Schaefer, Bhavya Singh, Divya Chhamalwan, Alexander Tepper, Sebastian R. Nielsen, Hunter T. Potak, Maxime Dhainaut, Gurkan Mollaoglu, Matthew D. Park, Miriam Merad, Alessia Baccarini, Brian D. Brownsvg

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Cosimo Commisso: Pancreatic Cancer Builds Immune Safe Zones to Evade Treatment