Publications related to History of cancer chemotherapy

Bcl-xL targeting eliminates ageing tumor-promoting neutrophils and inhibits lung tumor growth

Freddy Radtke, Nadine Fournier, Amber Dawn Bowler, Etienne Meylan, Anita Bodac, Justine Pascual, Vincent Roh

Elevated peripheral blood and tumor-infiltrating neutrophils are often associated with a poor patient prognosis. However, therapeutic strategies to target these cells are difficult to implement due to the life-threatening risk of neutropenia. In a genetica ...

Springernature2024

Translational screening platform to evaluate chemotherapy in combination with focal therapy for retinoblastoma

Paul Joseph Dyson, Valentin Simeonov, Fabien Kuttler, Irina Sinenko, Patrik Aouad

Retinoblastoma is the most common pediatric eye cancer. It is currently treated with a limited number of drugs, adapted from other pediatric cancer treatments. Drug toxicity and relapse of the disease warrant new therapeutic strategies for these young pati ...

WILEY2023

Colon tumour cell death causes mTOR dependence by paracrine P2X4 stimulation

Andrea Ablasser

Solid cancers exhibit a dynamic balance between cell death and proliferation ensuring continuous tumour maintenance and growth(1,2). Increasing evidence links enhanced cancer cell apoptosis to paracrine activation of cells in the tumour microenvironment in ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Antiangiogenic immunotherapy suppresses desmoplastic and chemoresistant intestinal tumors in mice

Matthias Lütolf, Michele De Palma, Mario Leonardo Squadrito, Mauro Delorenzi, Sina Nassiri, Alan Nicolas Thierry Guichard, Nikolche Gjorevski, Simone Ragusa, Borja Prat Luri, Laureline Wetterwald

Mutations in APC promote colorectal cancer (CRC) progression through uncontrolled WNT signaling. Patients with desmoplastic CRC have a significantly worse prognosis and do not benefit from chemotherapy, but the mechanisms underlying the differential respon ...

2020

Towards Light-Activated Ruthenium-Arene (RAPTA-Type) Prodrug Candidates

Paul Joseph Dyson, Rosario Scopelliti, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska, Anna Katherine Renfrew

Cancer is currently one of the deadliest diseases worldwide. Based on the high incidence of this disease, the side effects associated with current chemotherapies and the appearance of drug resistance, considerable efforts have been directed towards the dev ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2019

Lymphoma Chemotherapy: Hungry Macrophages Strike the Final Blow

Michele De Palma

Macrophages modulate tumor response to chemotherapy; in this issue, Lossos and colleagues show that high-dose alkylating agents instigate a synthetic lethal program in lymphoma cells that is independent of DNA damage and involves recruitment and priming of ...

AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH2019

Screening-based approach to discover effective platinum-based chemotherapies for cancers with poor prognosis

Paul Joseph Dyson, Gerardo Turcatti, Fabien Kuttler, Damiano Banfi, Hristo Plamenov Varbanov

Drug combinations are extensively used to treat cancer and are often selected according to complementary mechanisms. Here, we describe a cell-based high-throughput screening assay for identification of synergistic combinations between broadly applied plati ...

2019

Type I interferon/IRF7 axis instigates chemotherapy-induced immunological dormancy in breast cancer

Mauro Delorenzi, Thibaut François Hugo Richard, Yu-Ting Huang

Neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapies provide survival benefits to breast cancer patients, in particular in estrogen receptor negative (ER-) cancers, by reducing rates of recurrences. It is assumed that the benefits of (neo)adjuvant chemotherapy are due ...

Springer2019

Chemokine profiling in serum from patients with ovarian cancer reveals candidate biomarkers for recurrence and immune infiltration

Gianrocco Lazzari, Agata Mlynska

The management of advanced ovarian cancer is challenging due to the high frequency of recurrence, often associated with the development of resistance to platinum-based chemotherapy. Molecular analyses revealed the complexity of ovarian cancer with particul ...

SPANDIDOS PUBL LTD2019

A structure-based mechanism of cisplatin resistance mediated by glutathione transferase P1-1

Paul Joseph Dyson, Laure Menin, Wee Han Ang

Cisplatin [cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II) (cis-DDP)] is one of the most successful anticancer agents effective against a wide range of solid tumors. However, its use is restricted by side effects and/or by intrinsic or acquired drug resistance. Here, we ...

National Academy of Sciences2019

RasGRP1 is a potential biomarker for stratifying anti-EGFR therapy response in colorectal cancer

Mauro Delorenzi, Delphine Yvette L Grun

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most frequent neoplastic disorder and is a main cause of tumor-related mortality, as many patients progress to stage IV metastatic CRC. Standard care consists of combination chemotherapy (FOLFIRI or FOLFOX). Patients wi ...

AMER SOC CLINICAL INVESTIGATION INC2019

Anti-angiogenic immunotherapy for lung cancer

Ece Kadioglu

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-associated deaths worldwide. Platinum-based chemotherapy is the most common therapeutic approach in advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), particularly for tumors that carry non-druggable activating mutation ...

EPFL2019

Chemotherapy elicits pro-metastatic extracellular vesicles in breast cancer models

Ioanna Keklikoglou, Michele De Palma, Mario Leonardo Squadrito, Chiara Cianciaruso, Esra Güç, Alan Nicolas Thierry Guichard, Antonino Cassarà

Cytotoxic chemotherapy is an effective treatment for invasive breast cancer. However, experimental studies in mice also suggest that chemotherapy has pro-metastatic effects. Primary tumours release extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes, that can ...

2019

The metabolite BH4 controls T cell proliferation in autoimmunity and cancer

Kai Johnsson, Jairo Alexander Lozano Moreno, Yann Mathieu Pierson

Genetic regulators and environmental stimuli modulate T cell activation in autoimmunity and cancer. The enzyme co-factor tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) is involved in the production of monoamine neurotransmitters, the generation of nitric oxide, and pain(1,2). ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2018

Expression proteomics study to determine metallodrug targets and optimal drug combinations

Paul Joseph Dyson, Kai Johnsson, David Hacker, Claire Samantha Allardyce

The emerging technique termed functional identification of target by expression proteomics (FITExP) has been shown to identify the key protein targets of anti-cancer drugs. Here, we use this approach to elucidate the proteins involved in the mechanism of a ...

Nature Research2017

Epigenetic approach for angiostatic therapy: promising combinations for cancer treatment

Paul Joseph Dyson, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska, Ume-Gulsoom Abdul, Marije Trudi Te Winkel

Cancer cells are often dependent on epigenetic pathways for their survival. Consequently, drugs that target the epigenome, rather than the underlying DNA sequence, are currently attracting considerable attention. In recent years, the first epigenetic drugs ...

Springer Verlag2017

Controlling and Monitoring Intracellular Drug Delivery Using PHPMA-Based Polymer Nanomedicines

Claudia Battistella

Polymer nanomedicine is an attractive approach for the delivery of anticancer drugs. Firstly designed to increase drug bioavailability, polymer conjugates and polymer nanoparticles have rapidly emerged in the field of cancer therapy after the discovery of ...

EPFL2017

Metal-based drugs that break the rules

Paul Joseph Dyson, Claire Samantha Allardyce

Cisplatin and other platinum compounds have had a huge impact in the treatment of cancers and are applied in the majority of anticancer chemotherapeutic regimens. The success of these compounds has biased the approaches used to discover new metal-based ant ...

2016

Multidimensional Texture Analysis for Improved Prediction of Ultrasound Liver Tumor Response to Chemotherapy Treatment

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Adrien Raphaël Depeursinge

The number density of scatterers in tumor tissue contribute to a heterogeneous ultrasound speckle pattern that can be difficult to discern by visual observation. Such tumor stochastic behavior becomes even more challenging if the tumor texture heterogeneit ...

Springer2016

Development of mass spectrometric methods to understand the mechanism of action of transition metal-based anticancer compounds

Fook Seng Ronald Lee

Metal based anti-cancer drugs (metallodrugs) such as cisplatin are a cornerstone of cancer chemotherapy. However, development of this class of compound has been hindered by our lack of understanding of how they function. This is mainly because existing met ...

EPFL2016