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Peer-reviewed
Oct, 2015

[Therapeutic Potential of Targeting Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts in Esophageal Cancer].

Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
  • Kazuhiro Noma
  • ,
  • Hajime Kashima
  • ,
  • Takayuki Ninomiya
  • ,
  • Ryoichi Katsube
  • ,
  • Shinichiro Watanabe
  • ,
  • Toshiaki Ohara
  • ,
  • Hiroshi Tazawa
  • ,
  • Shunsuke Kagawa
  • ,
  • Yasuhiro Shirakawa
  • ,
  • Toshiyoshi Fujiwara

Volume
42
Number
10
First page
1228
Last page
30
Language
Japanese
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)

Advances in molecular and cellular biochemistry, such as the development of targeted cancer therapy, have dramatically improved the prognosis of cancer patients. Emerging data have suggested that bevacizumab treatment may act by controlling the cancer microenvironment. Many reports have examined the interaction of cancer cells with the tumor microenvironment, and cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are thought to play a central role in this process. We speculated that the cancer microenvironment and in particular, CAFs, strongly influence the development of esophageal cancer. We have analyzed the signaling pathways of molecular targets. However, inhibition of a single signaling pathway is insufficient to treat cancer effectively. Photoimmunotherapy is a molecular-targeted specific cancer therapy using near-infrared radiation, which was introduced by Mitsunaga et al. in 2011. We are using its specific method of killing cells to target CAFs. We will report the results of its effect on cancer cells in the future.

Link information
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26489555
ID information
  • ISSN : 0385-0684
  • Pubmed ID : 26489555

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